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Hot Steel. Japan's war lords know that their upstart industry and slave labor cannot hope to match Allied production. But the war lords are pinning their forlorn hopes on other factors to save them, for years to come: 1) Russian neutrality; 2) geography, which lengthens Allied sup ply...
The U.S. is down to the last thin line of motorcars essential to the maintenance of its civilian economy. At the rate of 4,000 a day, the nation's much-enduring cars (average age 6.3 years) are rolling off the roads into the junk piles. By year'...
"Our room in the Hotel Scribe is huge, highceilinged, with Army bed rolls stacked in one corner and piles of Army rations in another. We have hot water only once or twice a week for an hour, so everybody tries to bathe and shave at the same time.
Manhattan's piles of steel and stone, its solid brownstone houses stood firm, but the city's intricate, antlike pattern of existence failed. The hurricane moaned between skyscrapers in 95-mile-an-hour gusts. Water crept into the subways and trains stalled; thousands of people stayed in downtown...
At the Iron Gate, where the Danube flows between 200-foot piles of sandstone, some of Tito's men battled to join Red armymen who had come from the Ukraine, through Bessarabia, through the Galati Gap, through the heart of Rumania at breakneck pace. To the east, General Feodor...