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Canny Catherine would furnish "neither men, ships, nor money" for trade with the Alaska region. But she was willing to let the merchants furnish them. So the Siberian sea trader, Grigor Shelekhov, decided (circa 1780) to plant a Russian, colony in North America...
...supplies for the Chinese armies. One route, covering 4,500 miles, uses a railroad from the U.S. air supply base at Karachi in India, winds north through Kabul in Afghanistan to Samarkand in Russia. From there goods will be sent along the central Asia plains on the Turkestan-Siberian railway to the Soviet terminus at Alma Ata. The final stage is via the highway the Chinese built along the old Marco Polo trade route through Sinkiang and Kansu provinces to Chungking. The other route leads from Bushire on the Persian Gulf across Iran and then by water to Krasnovodsk...
...machinery, which was shipped with skilled workers to safety beyond the Urals. River boats and barges, operated entirely by women, had ferried part of the famed Dzerzhinsky tractor plant (now converted to tank manufacture) up the Volga to Kazan, where it was transshipped on flat cars by the Trans-Siberian railway. Other factories still were producing war supplies. Soldiers and workers fighting one battle mingled in the crowded boulevards of the city...
...State Department that Japan would attack the U.S. either in December or February. Mr. Haan, whose prophecies have since varied from the uncanny to the untrue (TIME, Aug. 24), said his underground sources had informed him that the Tojo Cabinet had steadily refused Germany's pleas for a Siberian invasion, even after the Nazis reached Stalingrad's gates...
...busy, on the Siberian frontier (see p. 24), in the Pacific, in Burma. No offensive army in modern history had ever spread itself so thin. And so in China his bailing slowed down and the water began to rise. Last week it had all but washed the Jap out of the coastal province of Chekiang, most densely populated, most modern and one of the most productive (wheat, beans, rice, silk) provinces of China. It was forcing him out of Kiangsi, west of Chekiang. And farther south he was slowly falling back on Canton. The Jap had his explanations, while China...