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...naked steel flank was cluttered with huts, tool houses and catwalks; the workmen called them "Normandieville." Last week Normandieville was coming down, and a big new grandstand was going up on the elevated highway which skirts the piers. The Navy was getting ready for the raising of the Normandie, burned Feb. 9, 1942, which had never sailed under her Navy name-U.S.S. Lafayette...
...their shots Friday with a vengeance--flank movement with merchurochrome, pincers of tetanus and typhoid, and out. But the worst was yet to come, whispered the mob, just wait till it hits...
...deficit) when pressure was put on from Berlin. She had chrome to offer the U.S. and Britain when they put the heat on (the U.S. is now receiving all the chrome that Germany is not). She could insist, and rightly, that her neutrality was protecting Britain's flank when the Wehrmacht reached the eastern Mediterranean. To Germany, if Hitler tried invasion, she could offer the prospect of stiff resistance in rugged country, almost devoid of communications. She has trumps of war today for the Allies: some 1,500,000 men whose fighting qualities are superb, despite their lack...
Against this gain the Chinese on their side this week could record the first solid tactical success in three weeks: swiftly marshaling a unit of undisclosed strength behind the southern flank, they turned the Japanese line, broke into the pass of Yuyangkwan, ousted a Japanese garrison and sent troops hotfoot after the Japanese retreating toward the east. The Chinese Air Force, for the first time in three years, was making an all-out effort to support ground operations, and elements of America's Fourteenth Air Force moved up to the Central China area for strategic bombing...
...success at Yuyangkwan could be further exploited, the Japanese position was not enviable. The bulk of their strength, estimated at several divisions, was concentrated on the northern flank for a breakthrough, presumably against the western outlet of the Yangtze gorges. Now this concentration, outflanked, its rear threatened, would either have to achieve that break-through within a minimum of time, or retreat...