In the maze of steel rails that stretches for miles along the New Jersey shore across from Manhattan, 8,000 loaded boxcars stood idle last week, waiting for their war freight to be moved to ships. The blight of manpower shortage had moved from New Jersey's tomato canning (TIME, Aug. 30) to an even more critical field.
The railroads needed 3,200 more men at once to 1) get the freight to the piers, 2) get the boxcars moving west for another load. Off on a manhunt went the War Manpower Commission and Railroad Retirement Board. Said WMC's Major Howard J. Lepper: "This...
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