Word: siberias
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...Wash, was thinking about Alaska. Mr. Magnuson's thoughts were not as far-fetched as they may have seemed. They were based on the following strategic and geographic facts: 1) if Hitler beats Russia, he gets the Trans-Siberian Railway; 2) whoever has the Trans-Siberian Railway controls Siberia; 3) Siberia is little more than a Cyclopean stone's throw from Alaska...
Bottlenecks and priorities made any timely aid to Russia seem unlikely. The first bottleneck is shipping across the Pacific, the second, rail transport across Siberia. And on all the war material that can be diverted from U.S. defense Britain and China now have priorities. One possible step would be to exempt Russia from the President's order last fortnight freezing the funds in the U.S. of all European nations...
...Shaw spent five years in Russia, served as U.S. vice consul in Siberia, helped spirit the bones of the Tsar's family out of the Soviet Union to the British at Harbin, Manchuria. A vice president, he now bosses National City's foreign exchange trading...
...other side of the border, in Siberia, troops were also on the move, going westward and to the southwest. Russia, as well as Japan, had need of the seasoned soldiers who had stood guard in the northeast of Asia. If Adolf Hitler's legions ousted Great Britain from the Near East, an outlet to the Persian Gulf might be Russia's if she could take...
...they were the founders of the U. S. ranching industry. Theirs was "the greatest, the most extraordinary, the most stupendous, the most fantastic and fabulous migration of animals controlled by man that the world has ever known." They gave character to a wide new country, grand as Siberia; they gave soul and shape to a new human breed, the Texas cowboy. Says Author Dobie: "I do not believe that any kind of riding will pump virtue into a man like that in pursuit of wild, strong, mighty-horned cattle plunging for liberty or just walking like phalanxes of destiny towards...