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...German legions swept past steelstubborn Stalingrad and liquidated Russia's power of attack, Hitler would have been not only man of the year, but he would have been undisputed master of Europe, looking for other continents to conquer. He could have diverted at least 250 victorious divisions to new conquests in Asia and Africa. But Joseph Stalin stopped him. Stalin had done it before-in 1941-when he started with all of Russia intact. But Stalin's achievement of 1942 was far greater. All that Hitler could give he took-for the second time...
...Namely: Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, recently put over all France, 66; Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, Prussian who helped conquer Poland, Paris, the North Caucasus, 61; Field Marshal Siegmund List, who led the Balkan campaign, 62; Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, who commands the northern front in Russia...
...Herr Hitler's frantic preoccupation with Africa the Russian winter offensive had exploded. In the central sector around Rzhev the Russians launched another attack. In both sectors Hitler's troops stumbled backward over the frozen graves of Axis soldiers who had already died in the attempt to conquer Russia...
More cheering to aviation enthusiasts was Patterson's belief that the air lines will be kept busy pioneering new commercial routes, that they have a whole unexplored new world to conquer where transportation is inadequate...
...Some of the practices of the Rockefellers and the Hewitts were felonics by any civilized standards. But, not content with mere condemnation, the authors of "The Age of Enterprise" make a stab at explanation. In their eyes, business for almost a century was a lusty young giant trying to conquer a continent. Like most lusty young giants, it managed to stage a few orgiastic riots...