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...hand and basket, shovel and wheelbarrow, pitting their sweat-shiny muscles against the river. Near Kaifeng dikes were rising to replace those destroyed in 1938 by the Chinese when they scorched the earth in the path of the Jap invaders. Before the dikes were opened the river had flowed northeastward into the Pohai Gulf. Afterward, it turned southeastward and ran into the Yellow Sea. If the river could be diverted to its former bed, 1,500,000 acres of arable land would grow the grain and cotton that China needs...
...eastern wing of the beachhead the Germans also showed some fight. But the garrison of Cannes was pounded into surrender by sea, air and land by D-plus-ten, and Allied forces advancing east went on toward Nice, only a few miles away. A plunge northeastward to Briangon brought the Seventh Army only five miles from the Italian frontier. Any German hope of evacuating large bodies of troops from southern France to northern Italy was virtually ended...
...clock, six automobiles whisked through the city of Vichy, sped northeastward, convoyed by German Army motorcycles. Among the passengers: Pétain, his wife, his personal physician...
Scheme for Schisms. Hitler struck first and squarely at the center. He achieved victories great enough to force the Russians to withdraw part of their strength from the two flanks. He then drove a wedge northeastward, which cut off Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov and his forces in Leningrad. That accomplished the split between north and center...
Snow sifted last week through the mountain peaks and troughs of perpendicular little Albania. It laid a white blanket over thousands of stiff dead Italian soldiers on bleak slopes and in forested ravines from Porto Edda, where many of them had landed, northeastward to Lake Ochrida and the east-west gorges of the Shkumin River, where Italian commanders strove to make a stand against the relentless, amazing Greeks. Most Italians abhor cold as they do the sharp Greek bayonet, which Rome last week plaintively called a "barbaric and inhuman" weapon...