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Nazi bombers will inevitably redouble their efforts to choke off Russia's supplies. And coupled with the sky prowlers is an even greater menace from conquered Norwegian territory. At Trondheim lurk five Nazi men o' war, their snouts pointed ominously at Russia's sorely needed northern supply line...
...Chicago for the past month a model T laugh-getter has been burning up the road at a $17,000-a-week clip, leaving such streamlined models as Blithe Spirit and Angel Street to choke on its dust. Called Good Night Ladies, the show is the late Avery Hopwood's 22-year-old, towel-draped Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath, with hardly a line left that Hopwood would recognize, but with the situations all they were and then some...
...miles away early this week-and successfully entrench themselves in all northern Burma, they will have a new front on China's borders. But Jap conquest of Burma is mainly dangerous to the Chinese because of the great new land routes abuilding from India into China. The Japs choked off the Burma Road when they won Rangoon; if they win access to the northern roads, they might all but choke China...
Casual inspection at this time revealed that the choke and throttle rods had been improperly connected so that it was impossible to run the motor, and that the damaged engine heads were leaking exhaust gas and anti-freeze. Furthermore, an external part was found missing from the air-cleaner assembly, and was later discovered in Snell's shop...
Germany and Japan cannot in one convulsion seize all the great land and human masses, all the vast concentrations of productive power which oppose the Axis. But the Germans and the Japanese can try to isolate and choke the world's greatest land mass, Eurasia, where the greatest masses of fighting people, the Chinese and the Russians, block their paths to dominion (see col. 1). They were doing a fair job of choking last week. They were reaching for, and blocking, the land and sea roads by which the war materiel of the Americas reaches the warriors of Eurasia...