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...Peace is being sold as a commodity just like electricity or fountain pens or perfume. High-pressure salesmanship presents victory as the gateway to new iceboxes, new automobiles. . . . Peace will be when you can build a new home, cash your war bonds and have nothing further to worry about...
...offensive, but it had two parts. One part, directly under General Douglas MacArthur, was aimed at the Japanese positions in northern New Guinea (first Salamaua, then Lae) and at the island gateway between the Pacific proper and its southern satellite, the Coral Sea. The other part, though planned by General MacArthur, was under the immediate command of Admiral Halsey. His Naval, Marine and Army forces aimed at Munda, a Japanese air base and army station on New Georgia Island, some 200 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. On the approach to Munda, the Americans first took the outlying island of Rendova...
...Corp. ''who also have a finger in both American Airlines and Pan American Airways) still own a big chunk of his company. Keeshin's grandiose postwar air-freight plan is to serve over 200 U.S. cities with five-to-eleven-ton transports and also to establish "gateway" service for foreign freight runs in 18 air "ports," from New York to Seattle, and from Minneapolis to Miami and New Orleans...
...Weaver. What had brought the Archbishop to Teheran, to the southern gateway of the first Communist State? In an amazing four-month odyssey Francis Spellman had journeyed about 15,000 miles, stopped in 16 lands;* he would go on to India and China. He had chatted with soldiers in Britain, given alms in Malta, scanned the front in Tunisia, prayed in Jerusalem. Yet he had spent many hours in secret talk with statesmen and dignitaries, and around his plump, energetic figure swirled a fog of rumor and speculation. In that fog last week the Allied and the Axis world thought...
...Germans in and around Rostov, the gateway to the Caucasus, up to this week had offered about as little resistance as the Russians did to the Germans last summer. Soviet tanks, artillery and infantry breached the defenses on Rostov's south and southeast perimeter. Cavalry under Colonel General Andrei Ivanovich Yeremenko swept into Bataisk, only twelve miles south of the city. The Russians then announced that they had advanced to the left bank of the Don, and had begun to shell the Germans in the city itself...