As the Democrats met in Chicago to declare the war a failure, northern soldiers 700 miles away were making Sherman neckties out of the last open railroad into Atlanta by heating the rails over a bonfire of ties and twisting the iron around trees.

According to Klausner, “lightweighting” all cars and planes in the US would save 121 billion litres of fuel a year and cut carbon emissions by about 5 per cent.

They were forced to completely replace the roof at ruinous expense.

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