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...Tunisia men of Germany, Italy, the U.S., the British and French Empires were fighting. They were there not for the sake of Tunisia; no one on that terrain was defending his doorstep-not directly. But Tunisia is a threshold of Europe. Every Italian and every German on the battle fields of Tunisia knew that each day he could prolong the defense of Tunisia was postponing by one more day the Allied invasion of Europe. And for the Allies, for men like Lieut. General Patton, there was urgency to destroy this stubborn Tunisian delaying force in time to make...
...Midwest, once the seat of U.S. isolationism, is now actively scheming to bring the world to its doorstep. Chambers of Commerce talk less these days of tariffs than of air transport. The beginnings of debate over "freedom of the air," the realization that all the world's air is navigable, brought the Midwest a discovery of great local import: its inland cities are, geographically, the logical U.S. "ports" for the world's sky traffic. This month three great Midwestern cities were hard at work on plans for these world ports of the future...
...Southern Door. Of troubled Turkey, teetering on the Allies' southern doorstep into Axis Europe, Winston Churchill said...
Like any returning traveler, Franklin Roosevelt found the mailbox jammed, a desk littered with unanswered memos, a row of soured milk bottles on his doorstep. In his three-week absence from the White House the work had piled up-and oversights had taken their toll. To catch up he would now have to work overtime...
...hrerville," which the engineers had contrived from old lumber. Two of them imitated weary soldiers trying to find a place to rest, did all of the incorrect things. One picked up a pair of gloves. An explosion followed. The same happened when they set foot on the doorstep, opened a door, shut a window...