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It was midnight when the special train came down the siding. It was laden with canned goods in jars and other foodstuffs packaged without metal. The men set to work with a will to remove a certain quantity, but the bulk of the stuff in the mechanical refrigerator cars seemed to be ignored. The engineer and train crew broached the subject to Jim Greene.
"I am impounding the train," he said.