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...reporter on the Des Moines Register Tribune last year, Grant is the author of a recent article in the Nation, in which he claimed Boston is the new hub of American fascists...
...winter still gripped the land, they were said to be sending reinforcements into Leningrad on a double-track railway over the ice of Lake Ladoga; in the far south also they were moving up reinforcements. There the land was thawing into the same awful gumbo that had sucked at hub caps back in the autumn, before the winter leave...
Crashing south toward Singapore, the Jap had more than the glory of the Mikado to drive him on. He was in a desperate race with time, and if he could not beat the hands of the clock, his push to the strategic hub of the Far East was going to be a historic failure...
Partly it was rain that upset their calculations, miring them in hub-deep, sucking mud. But mostly they had failed because they were faced by the only troops in Asia who could match them in war-wrung experience. They themselves had taught these Chinese veterans how to snuggle against protecting hills, how to gauge ranges and rations, how to hold out hopelessly or attack desperately...
...wheel drive, extra-heavy duty, able to haul almost anything almost anywhere. Only ten years old, it has sold thousands of square-hooded, locomotive-like behemoths to lumbermen, miners, oilmen, highway departments. In the Louisiana oil fields M-H trucks are called "Mud Cats" because they slosh through hub-deep mud as though equipped with web wheels, in Western lumber camps they climb rough 40° grades so easily they are known as "Mountain Goats." In all, M-H has 33 models, going from five to 35 tons with six driving wheels, twelve forward and four reverse speeds. Special jobs...