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Pressing their advantage, the Field Marshal's troops began to move eastward and northward through the mountains towards Cyrene and Derna on the hump of Cyrenaica. By the weekend they had covered more than half the distance to Derna...
...from Leningrad to Smolensk to Orel to Kharkov to Odessa, in an area embracing excellent north-south rail communications. Subsequent German dispatches termed it "a loose network of strong points-an elastic winter line." By last week the winter-quarters alibi was wearing thin. The Germans would have to hump if winter quarters were to be established before warm weather...
Strategically, the week's most important development in Libya was the spectacular British sweep by "mechanized patrols" across the base of the Libyan hump. The patrols could not have been very strong, but they were apparently strong enough to attack and destroy Axis land convoys, which were working along the road which was the only Axis supply line from the west...
...vulnerable eastern hump of Brazil, which sticks out sore-thumb-like on all maps of U.S. grand strategy, is for one U.S. corporation already an active fighting front. The corporation: Pan American Airways. On the hump, Pan Am lines parallel Axis airlines; and there, at U.S. Government behest, Pan Am last week was busy improving or building twelve air bases, ringing the hump...
...William F. Koch to make some. Now Manufacturer Koch turns hard, red cocobolo wood into 90% of the recorders sold in the U.S. All a recorder maker needs is this South American wood, a lathe, a few tools, and an exceptionally acute ear. But Manufacturer Koch will have to hump. Schirmer's, which takes all his output, estimates that 4,000 recorders-at $4 to $45-will be sold this year...