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Myth v. Fact. The Russians may be stripping Manchuria's factories, but there is no evidence of it in Suichung. This southwestern outpost of Jap and Russian occupation has only one factory-a mercury refinery erected years...
Walter Short arrived in Hawaii in February to take command. The nation's outpost was woefully deficient. Hawaii needed aircraft, artillery, searchlights, roads, bombproofing, engineer troops, more airfields for dispersion of planes, aircraft warning systems...
After 40 years, Japan had lost the rugged peninsula (as big as Great Britain) from which she had launched her Co-Prosperity Sphere. Soviet Russia had be come a power in the empire outpost which Tsarist Russia coveted...
...Wall Street last week, the Communist Daily Worker was in hot demand. So was pinko PM, which jumped its press run from 175,000 to 475,000. The pro-labor Post and its outpost, the Bronx Home News, had shut up shop; twelve other metropolitan dailies carried on with comparatively minuscule printings-of cut-down issues that were practically devoid of advertising...
Watching her Okinawa outpost crumble before U.S. attack, a desperate Japan played small cards for high stakes last week-and lost. In two disastrous days 417 Jap planes went spinning into the sea. In 30 fateful minutes of the second afternoon, two cruisers, three destroyers and her last naval trump, the 45,000-ton battleship Yamato, were battered to the bottom...