Word: basins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week one column of Vatutin's army, rolling south, was within 100 miles of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov, thereby threatening to block the Wehrmacht's retreat from Rostov. There is a chance that before spring the Wehrmacht may lose all of the rich Donets basin west to the Dnieper River-the last natural defense line inside Russia...
...hold in the south became fairly clear. If they could keep Kursk and Kharkov-the starting points of their summer drive-and retain a line swerving southeastward to Rostov, they would still have the main arteries of their principal supply system and most of the industrially rich Donets basin. Fortnight ago, the Red Army seemed to have a chance to threaten this "last line." This week, after they completed the repossession of Voronezh and swept westward, the Russians were actually attacking the outer bastions of that line near Kursk and Belgorod. To the south, beyond Kharkov, the Germans' maximum...
...Donets basin is the greatest prize the Germans have won in Russia. If they have to retreat from Rostov, giving up the eastern half of the basin, they could still try to hold a straightened version of the Kharkov-Mariupol line from which they started last year, and the richer western half of the basin would still be German. Any retirement beyond that line, meaning the sacrifice of all the Donets area, could be attributed only to utter defeat...
Despite the apparently amazing information that Latin Americans have almost the same traits as the homo sapiens of the California Basin, Hollywood has misrepresented South America once again. It looks like international libel laws should be set up, especially among Good Neighbours. In patios and skyscrapers ex-gaucho Adolphc Menjou putters dismally through various schemes to make his daughter, Rita, fall in love, but the plot stops there...
...sleeping quarters were the rear end of one of the trucks fitted out with a desk, two chairs, couch, wash basin, toilet and shower. Along the route he added a porcelain bathtub. Over his bed he pinned a picture of his enemy, Rommel...