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...Force. Russian bombing attacks were focused on the central front, in the Smolensk-Bryansk-Orel sector, where 90 Nazi divisions are concentrated. Russian bombardiers blasted, and left burning, railway depots, trains, fuel and ammunition dumps at Bryansk, Karachev, Smolensk and Roslavl, and technical and engineering supply depots at Krasni Bor. The heaviest single attack was a 520-plane blast against the big German rail and supply base of Orel. Bomb and fire damage to supply depots and railways was heavy. When the Nazis railroaded supplies out of vulnerable Orel to Karachev and Bryansk the next day, Red bombers attacked...
...troubles, Wendell Willkie could thank many factors: human nature, because of which an outspoken man makes nearly as many enemies as friends; the American political system, whose rules are designed to discourage any man from starting at the top; the back-breaking !:-bor of bringing off an ideological revolution inside a party still run largely by men schooled in Smoot-Hawley foreign policy and Warren Harding "normalcy...
...Jersey's Fort Dix went Billy Rose with two big exhibition trucks bor rowed from General Motors' "road show" Parade of Progress. One truck opened out into an 18-by-20-foot stage with a green sequin curtain. The other truck was loaded with Fort Dix's Reception Center band, including hot ex-Broadway syncopators...
Ships and Sheep. Turning the problem over in his mind as he sat at his desk in the Casa Rosada,* Ramên Castillo had only to look out of the window to see one miserable aspect of it: Buenos Aires har bor, once South America's busiest port, almost deserted of shipping, with 18 German and Italian vessels lying at anchor as reminders of the pressure on him. Once an average of 150 ships a day put into Buenos Aires. Now there are about 26 a week. Of 400,000 tons of meat which Britain contracted for six months...
...touched a penny of the $20,000,000 waiting for her in Washington. And $20,000,000, he added, comes to more than two-thirds of her nine months' unfavorable trade balance with the U. S. As the other $10,000,000, the Rich Neigh bor could promise two other favors to the Colossus of the South. One was to keep U.S. wheat out of Brazilian markets, where U. S. dumping in 1938-39 drove Argentine farmers wild. The other was to stand aside on $160,000,000 of beef and corn orders now being placed by the British...