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...North Africa's snow-smeared Atlas mountains, Winston Churchill relaxed with easel and paints for a day at his favorite hobby, landscape painting. Then he bade good-by to his good friend Franklin Roosevelt and headed eastward for Turkey...
Even before the last link of Big Inch was completed, the motors were started on the pumps at Longview and the thick, black crude oil had begun the slow, oozing (three miles per hour) journey north and eastward. Some ten days later it would reach the storage tanks at Norris City; from there tank cars would soon haul it to the Eastern Seaboard. By next June, when the second section of the line is completed-from Norris City to Philadelphia and Bayway, N.J.-Eastern refineries will be able to draw oil from far-off Texas as easily as a housewife...
...then what will we do?" Then under Wavell they had driven Graziani westward to El Aghéila. Rommel had punched them back. Under Auchinleck, Cunningham and Ritchie had recovered that ground. Again Rommel had punched them back, this time destroying most of their armored force and driving them eastward to within 70 miles of Alexandria. There was doubt that they could hold the line much longer against Rommel's increasing weight. They were whipped, weary, maligned, discouraged. The whole Middle East faced a Nazi invasion...
...Bumper to bumper, crawling at five miles an hour, humping along at 25, went outsize lorries, gasoline and water transports, trailers laden with tanks, ten-ton Whites, ten-ton Macks, three-ton Fords and Chevrolets (75% of the wheeled traffic was U.S.-made), staff cars, jeeps, moving westward, returning eastward for more supplies...
...MacARTHUR's HEADQUARTERS, Australia--Allied troops closed from three sides today on Sanananda Point, last Japanese foothold in the Papuan area of New Guinea, as remnants of an enemy convey which was battered for three days at Lae were reported fleeing north-eastward...