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Peacefully Inclined. One country pledged to resist aggression against Greece was Turkey, keeper of the Dardanelles and sprawling impediment on the Axis overland route to the Suez Canal and oil wells of Mosul and Iran. Turkey's astute little president, General Ismet Inönü, kept his ambassador lingering around the Kremlin in case Silent Joe Stalin should decide to speak encouragingly. Under Field Marshal Fevsi Cakmak, comrade under fire of the late great Kamal Ataturk and Commander in Chief of the Turkish Army, 400,000 troops crowded trains running to Adrianople, a few miles from the Bulgarian...
...stood with feet planted wide, arms out, thumbs down in the ancient gesture. Viragoes spat and jeered. Men with smut and grease on their dungarees shook their fists, bellowed epithets. On through the dingy streets rolled the shiny, new 1941-model cars, past Toledo Machine & Tool Co., the Willys-Overland plant. Outside the heavy-meshed "strike fences" stood mocking, spindle-legged children, hard-muscled men, mustached old women. "Hello, rats!" they shouted. In front of -Electric Auto-Lite Co., scene of bloody labor battles between strikers and National Guardsmen, greybeards shook fists in the car windows. Men held up crudely...
Willys, which has had more ups & downs in recent years than any other car, got patriotic, named its '41s "Americar," dropped the once-famed "Overland" name altogether. Four cylinders turn out 63 h.p., wheel base is two inches longer and every car has a gravel shield at the rear end. Prices...
Harvard spent most of yesterday afternoon trying to strengthen its defenses, against both ground and overland thrusts. These operations were followed by punting and passing drills, with Joe Gardella coming in for a lot of action in his new role...
...desert, British and Italian tanks and armored cars scuttled in and out of the oases, "islands of the blessed," in the modern version of Lawrence of Arabia's strike-and-run stratagem with camel raiders. The British kept a lookout for an overland thrust southeast across the ancient caravan trails to Cairo or Khartoum. Having once accomplished the impossible, in forced marches and road building in Ethiopia, it was not inconceivable that Italy might pit her legions against both nature and the British, in a gamble to sever the British Empire's jugular...