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...Battle of the Ukraine was a gigantic flanking operation with the Germans going deep into the stretch between the Bug and Dnieper Rivers, then swinging south to encircle the Russians at the Black Sea ports. Frontally the German gains eastward were out of all linear proportion to the great flanking sweeps which made the gains possible. A great break-through near Uman, 120 miles south of Kiev, paved the way for the final dash south to the Black Sea. By week's end the Germans claimed to have rolled across the Krivoi Rog iron-ore area, which had supplied...
...passage on a Japanese liner sailing two days before the President's deadline expired on July 15. The British safe conduct to Japan had arrived too late. Captain Wiedemann talked to Washington and Berlin. Then he chartered three planes, stowed his party and their luggage aboard, and sped eastward. Said the Captain as he peeled $100 bills off a fat bankroll, to pay baggage men: "Well have to win the war to pay for this trip." In Washington, Chargé d'Affaires Dr. Hans Thomsen scraped the Embassy bare of cash to pay the Captain's airline...
...surrounding Mexico City from a "Blue" Army supposedly advancing from Veracruz. The Red Army, which was supposed to win and was therefore given a slight edge in numbers and equipment, also outwitted the Blues. First Red move was to slam partly motorized infantry and cavalry into the only two eastward passes -over the massif formed by the famous volcano Popocatepetl and by Ixtacihuatl, "the Sleeping Woman"-through almost roadless, thoroughly inaccessible country...
...last week spotters at Algeciras, Spain, near Gibraltar, saw two big British transports go through the straits eastward, escorted by two cruisers and a destroyer. The next day they saw the battle cruiser Repulse, the aircraft carrier Argus and five destroyers set out to catch up with these ships and others which had apparently steamed ahead. There was no question but that the British were determined to get this convoy through. The. weather was stormy and dark, and therefore favorable...
...train rolled eastward. The disputants drifted into the drawing room of Company President Warren Courtland MacFarlane. They had a few drinks, a few words, played a little poker. Friendly game and words grew even friendlier as the train approached the Capital. By the time the train rolled into Union Station, management and union were so close to agreement that they decided to call the Mediation Board and ask to be left alone a few hours. The Board said "Fine." By next morning, the disputants had found a formula for a settlement. The union bought the drinks. President MacFarlane chartered...