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...rapidly that the pursuing Allies-making 15 miles a day along the flat Tyrrhenian coastal plain-had trouble keeping contact. The German center in the hills and the left along the Adriatic, falling back more slowly, faced dire peril. Through the flagging right the Allies might knife suddenly eastward, surround the rest of the Germans...
...this activity fortified an ancient hope of U.S. geologists: that the great Gulf oil strata of Texas and Louisiana sweep eastward clear to the Atlantic and northward along the coastline, perhaps all the way up to Maryland. It will be years before that hope is finally confirmed or disproved. But meanwhile the southeastern boom fosters a nearer-term political purpose for the rugged individualists of the U.S. oil industry. As Oil Czar Ickes backs his unpopular Arabian pipeline (TIME, Feb. 14, et seq.) with dire warnings that the U.S. "cannot oil another war," the industry can use every...
...facts doomed the two continents to division, jealousy, rivalry and constant warfare. Russia, however, was the Eurasian exception: in topography and resources it was more like the U.S. Gilpin thought the U.S. and Russia would follow the same pattern of growth -the U.S. moving westward to the Pacific, Russia eastward to the Pacific...
...mountain areas considered, impassable in any kind of weather, trapped the 7th Indian Division by severing its communication lines. At week's end, the 7th Division was still encircled; but the Japs were slowly falling back under a flanking threat from West African troops who had wormed eastward...
...Mukhtar's warm reception has encouraged the Digest to make postwar plans that will cover the Moslem world, from Morocco eastward to Iran. One stirring sign already noted: many a Moslem reader puts away his copy of Al Mukhtar against the day when his sons learn to read...