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Samara was a fine spot for a fort, perching on terraced heights at the juncture of the Volga and Samara Rivers; but it was a terrible place to live. Freezing weather comes by mid-October. The average January temperature is 9° Fahrenheit. Some years the sharp-toothed winds are so persistent that snow will not stay on the ground. Droughts follow, and famines follow the droughts...
Contingents of Rhodesian and Indian troops, about 7,000 strong, sent belatedly to reinforce the 560-man Somaliland Camel Corps, failed to stem Italian columns pressing along the coast from the west and through the mountains from the south, in temperatures of 120° Fahrenheit. The British made two stands outside of Berbera and then departed. Great Britain, with only 120,000 troops in the Middle East and with a situation in India too delicate to permit heavy troop withdrawals from there, was in no position to pour in enough men for a real defense. The Italians viewed Berbera...
...Powdered aluminum and iron oxide, generating 4,000° Fahrenheit...
...Strong, elastic and capable of being spun exceedingly fine, Vinyon's big drawback as a garment textile is that it shrivels at 160° Fahrenheit, cannot be ironed...
...York Communists have swarmed into A. L. P. Last week they were told to buzz out. A big party meeting was called to blast Stalinism out of A. L, P. ranks. Speaker after speaker denounced the Soviet. Then the A. L. P. men melted together all the high-Fahrenheit words they could find, forged a white-hot resolution that seared the "red and brown dictatorships" for "their shameless, hypocritical acts," their "brazen conduct," finally branded their U. S. apologists as "antiDemocratic, anti-humanitarian, antilabor, and the blind servants of the Russian international policy...