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...Spartakovka settlement near by, where factory workers had dwelt, also fell to the Germans. The Dzerzhinsky factory was plastered with tons of bombs. As the fighting surged into new parts of northern Stalingrad, the section of railway yards, oil tanks and huge warehouses, the Germans tried to mushroom north & south from captured positions. Russian flank attacks halted them...
Nine months after Pearl Harbor, languorous Honolulu is booming like San Francisco in '49. Suburbs mushroom. Money flows, men are men without women. Everybody works. Always people look to sea for ships that carry things to buy: war has made a hurdy-gurdy of the town (pop. 179,356 in 1940) which romanticists used to eulogize as the place of abundant calm, a fair haven where even mynah birds waxed so fat that they hardly bothered to get out of way of wheel or foot...
...reach the Don at Letskaya, the Germans tried to crack Russian defenses with revival of svinya (pig), a device used centuries ago by the Teutonic knights. They formed a triangle of several score tanks, filled the center with infantry, then rammed the Soviet line, hoping that the infantrymen could mushroom out behind the lines after a breakthrough. The Russians were not caught napping. They broke the triangle and mauled the hapless foot soldiers. But still the Germans pushed...
...Urals are the chief seat of Soviet Asia's industrial power, "the inner bastion of Russian defense." The Magnitogorsk Steel Mill, which since 1936 has produced the cheapest pig iron in Russia, supports a mushroom metropolis of 200,000. The Cheliabinsk Tractor Plant, the world's biggest, now turns out tanks and armored cars. Twenty years ago Ekaterinburg, where the last Tsar and his family were shot in a cellar, was a city of 25,000. Now renamed Sverdlovsk, it is the junction of seven railroad lines, has a population...
Later on, he became a lieutenant colonel. He never went higher. He was a dutiful, unspectacular soldier. Whenever he could manage it, he slipped away to work on the "mushroom smoothness" of the silver in whose fashioning he was, in his unpretentious way, a great artist...