Word: leningrader
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Airport to Kremlin. From the airport a seven-car motorcade led by a black Packard limousine rolled on to Leningrad Highway past a huge statue of Lenin and mammoth apartment buildings with ragged faces, where war priorities had halted construction work. Nearer the city the highway merged into twelve-laned Gorki Street. Soldiers queuing up to buy afternoon newspapers and women carrying net sacks with bread and vegetables scarcely noticed the cars. But as the first limousine rolled down Gorki Street hill and turned west along the north wall of the Kremlin, U.S. and British correspondents recognized-in the light...
...reported reports via Stockholm that the Russians might soon sue for peace. As if in answer, the Russians revealed that last winter they had rounded up and executed scores of Nazi parachute spies, had crushed out cells of fifth columnists-"disaffected youths, former Tsarist officials and civil servants"-in Leningrad...
...Russians are fighting for Stalingrad as they fought for Moscow and Leningrad...
...slash across the Volga, was worthy of his bloodiest efforts. More important to Russia than the Mississippi is to the U.S.. the Volga on its broad back carries the steel, oil. ore. tanks, guns and food of a vast chain of industrial cities stretching from its headwaters, between Leningrad and Moscow, to the salty Caspian. Canals, first dreamed of by Peter the Great, connect it with the Baltic. The Caspian is a gateway to Baku, to Iran and the outside world. Already Nazi bombers were pounding Volga shipping...
...great event had happened at last. In Manhattan last week Conductor Toscanini led the NBC Symphony Orchestra in the first U.S. performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's long-heralded Seventh Symphony, composed during the Nazi siege of Leningrad...