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...border, his toric jumping-off-place of the barbaric hordes who in past ages surged through the Rhodope Mountain passes into the fertile plains of Grecian Thrace. Across the Danube and two-and-one-half miles of marshland that separate Rumanian Giurgiu from Bulgarian Russe, Nazi engineers began to construct a gigantic ferry and pontoon bridge capable of supporting the heaviest equipment...
...eight U. S. Navy shipyards are busy with U. S. naval vessels. So are many of the 23 private yards equipped to build ocean-going vessels of 300 feet or more in length. The private yards have also contracted to construct 176 merchant ships: 124 for the Maritime Commission, 52 (mostly tankers) for private firms. This is enough orders to keep their 83 ways busy more than a year, even if all the ways are used without interruption. Last week, when representatives of the industry met in Washington with Defense Commission experts and labor men, it became clear that interruptions...
...matter organism is forever evolving. Mankind is the whole organism's "developing nervous system," and is due for greater changes still. Reiser insists that men must not leave their evolution merely up to cosmic rays as in the past, but must take their fate in their own hands, construct a rational, planetary society. If man does so, promises Reiser, "he will be superseded by the superman...
...difficult task in writing has faced H. H. and Margaret Harper in their attempt to construct an integrated dramatic work from the clues furnished in the correspondence of Dickens and Dora Spenlow. Twenty-one years of Dickens' life, the passing parade from poverty to success, and three romances are a lot of material; the resulting sacrifice of continuity and development to a more complete story shows quite plainly in spots. Further, there is a feeling that the dialogue of Dickens and his two true loves, Dora Spenlow and Caroline Bronson, waxes a bit rhapsodical in their secret trysts--too much...
...Cairo, where Greek diplomatic quarters revealed the Axis price for peace: 1) immediate severance of economic relations with Great Britain; 2) cession to Italy of a strip of territory along the Albanian frontier; 3) cession to Bulgaria of a corridor to the Aegean; 4) permission to Italy to construct a military road from Albania to Salonika; 5) use of Greek air bases by Germany and Italy; 6) abdication of King George II and resignation of Premier John Metaxas...