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...effort. His figuring gave Mr. Cutcheon an idea that by now is almost an obsession: a railroad from Duluth, Minn, to Moscow, U.S.S.R. He envisions a great flow of war freight carried by rail to Alaska and Bering Strait, across the 36-mile water gap by car ferry to Siberia, and so on by rail to Moscow and way stations. He gives that distance as about 7,000 miles and the cost of a double-track line as about $700,000,000-or one-third what the Allies are now losing annually on the seas...
Today the Japanese have the choice of attacking Australia, Siberia, India, Hawaii, Alaska-or China. They may soon attempt one or more of these invasions, but one certainty is that the battle for China has already begun, with more troops than Japan used in Malaya, the Philippines and Burma combined, and that Japan has new and impelling reasons for seeing it through to a finish...
Most of the farmers, particularly in eastern Siberia, have served in the Red Army. Well schooled in the science of guerrilla warfare, they have turned their farms into fortresses, and sleep with rifles by their pillows...
...still blanketed the land. Moving across the solidly frozen earth of the Karelian Isthmus, the Red Army smashed again & again at the tough Finnish defenders, drove a trio of wedges into the Finnish lines despite desperate tank and infantry counterattacks. East of beleaguered Leningrad Red troops lately transported from Siberia hacked away at Finnish positions on the Aunus Isthmus between Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega...
...this year the problem is twice as tough. The Northwest railroads think they can handle it again-given the same cooperation, given new farm storage space, barring accidents. One such accident, mentioned in Minneapolis by CCC's regional director: suppose Alaska and Siberia become a theater of war? In that case the railroads might have no free cars to take wheat off the farms, even if there were elevator space to take...