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...professor picked up a pointer, waved it at a world that most of his audience had never seen before. The center of his new map was the North Pole. Tracing future air routes with his pointer, the professor proceeded to teach topsy-turvy geography: Tokyo is nearer to Minneapolis than to San Diego. Chicago is closer to Siberia than to South America...
President Roosevelt had said: "Russia will hold out." Winston Churchill had said: "It is the eighth of September," inviting the Russians and their allies to believe that winter, if not the Second Front, was coming soon enough to founder the German armies. The Russians were nearer to the German face. They said: "Yes, Sept. 8-and now it is the middle of September, but Molotov called on you in May. Where are your armies?" The Russians knew what the Russian calendar and the record of the Russian war to date had yet to teach Messrs. Roosevelt and Churchill...
...NEARER THE EARTH-Beatrice Borst-Random...
...intention of drafting an army so huge that most of the able-bodied men in the nation will be in uniform within a few months. Its final decision on the rubber problem was being rapidly drafted by the hands of Bernard Baruch. Its own internal pressures were slowly bringing nearer a reorganization of the War Production Board...
...under 18 cannot give blood and those students under 21 who are unable to secure their parents' permission are prevented from contributing. However at least 60 per cent of the students are eligible to bring the 3,000,000 pint goal one step nearer realization. Adams House with 120 pints to its credit is far in front of the field, while some other Houses lag below...