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Besieged since Aug. 8, Leningrad is still ringed some 30 miles away by Nazi guns. Capture of Leningrad would 1) isolate the Kronstadt naval base, opening the Baltic as a German supply line to the northern front; 2) clear direct communications to Finland; 3) penetrate the Russian right flank, making the menace to Moscow even graver than last year's; 4) prepare for supplying and manning a major offensive to cut Russia's vital, northern supply line via Murmansk...
...taking more territory every day out of the diplomatic province, Mr. Hull was content for the State Department to fill henceforth what he called last week "a minor role." However, there was still work to do-in Latin America, for example, on top of fine work already done. And Finland-well, Finland would have to be told again to stop fighting Russia or face a U.S. declaration...
...late as 1935, the company's total sales were only $87,000. But the next year the U.S. Engineers Corps gave him an order for two river steamer inspection boats. By 1939, A.J. was making Eurekas not only for the U.S. Navy, but for the British and Finland (he was made Finland's New Orleans consul, for "services rendered"). Last year his sales were over $1,000,000 a month. His new City Park Avenue plant- "the largest boat-building plant under one roof"-was dedicated last summer with a smashing Navy demonstration of what Higgins Industries products...
...that, and the night after that, they were back yet again & again. When they left they were certain that it would be a long time before Rostock, staggering under the weight of 800 tons of bombs, would function efficiently as a supply port for the Nazi armies in Norway, Finland and northern Russia. They were certain too that the Heinkel Airplane Works near by, to which they had given special attention, would be out of commission for months...
Initiative was still Russian property last week. The Russians attacked all along the line, from Kerch in Crimea to Karelia, bordering Finland. But they did not capture any of the main German strong points; they, like the Germans, were hub-caught in mud; and every single day of the week the Russian communique had the phrase "no significant change...