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Mouthing an unlit cigar, Lewis swung his arms in a swimmer's breast stroke, swatting Jap ships down. He would sweep on southward, he had told the open-mouthed diners, until all Japan's conquests had been retaken and the Japs' power utterly destroyed. Then he would attend to Germany. "Then would come the vengeance," Lewis thundered...
Burma is a land of three rivers: the long, motherly Irrawaddy in the west ; the tired, gentle Sittang in the center; the wild Salween in the east. They rise in the northern hills, where God lives. They all run southward, through Upper Burma to the rice fields of the south, and then into the Gulf of Martaban and the Bay of Bengal...
...villages. Flames nightly lick the demi-jungle under a full yellow moon, so that a ghastly orange ring encircles Burmese arsonists, looters, desolate lines of Indians' oxcarts beginning to go northward on their long hegira to India, and Chinese trucks, cyclists, American scout cars and artillery going southward to the front...
...rich, resourceful Michael L. Benedum, the world's No. 1 wildcatter, now aged 72, is hard at it again. In West Virginia last week his fast-moving agents got the last signature on oil leases sewing up 200,000 hilly acres, bordering 35 miles of the Ohio River southward from Sistersville...
...Empire's power was manifest. The war might be long, as Premier Tojo warned, but the tide of defeat had turned and was now a thunderous southward surge of victory. The Emperor had even deigned to show himself, astride his white horse, to receive the banzais of his subjects. In the parks of Tokyo, the people thrilled to brass bands blaring the fervent strains of Kimigayo...