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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lozovaya Timoshenko's troops were only 62 miles from Dnepropetrovsk and the site of the once great, now ruined Dnieper Dam. The Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic last week announced that before the dam was dynamited to render it useless to the Germans (TIME, Sept. 1), its 740,000-h.p. turbines and other power machinery had been dismantled and moved eastward to safety...
Length of the race has been reduced from four to two miles, announced F. Valentine Chappell, honorary chairman of the regatta committee, on Friday. War conditions provoked the change, since New London is the site of a number of vital defense industries, and some factories face on the Thames...
...that point nearly all of Malaya's tin and rubber was gone; now only the naval base was left and its site. Singapore, was already within such close reach of the Japanese Air Force that the base could no longer be called importantly naval...
Donning fresh white linens, Mr. Welles joined others from the Americas in presenting credentials to Foreign Minister Aranha, paying a courtesy call on President Vargas. He talked with early Argentine delegates. He had a look at the site of the coming meetings-historic Tiradentes Palace, named for Brazil's revolutionary hero, a dentist (tiradente means "tooth-puller") who was hanged by the Portuguese 150 years ago and his body quartered and sent in brine as a warning to all parts of the country...
...British rushed to meet them and repulsed the first assault. But the first assault was just a diversion. Ten miles to the south ten more Japanese transports were disgorging their eager little beach-climbers. Here the Japanese gained a foothold, then filtered through jungles and swamps toward Kota Bhary, site of an airdrome and junction of railways running south to Singapore and north to Thailand...