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...Frank Garrett, light and power man, sprinted for the Southwestern Public Service building, pulled the town's master light switch, hoped people would...
These were preliminaries. Salamaua, Lae and Munda also were intermediate objectives on the road to a larger objective-Rabaul, heart & center of the Japanese naval, air and land establishment on the southwestern periphery. North of Rabaul there is only open sea (775 miles of it) between the periphery and the great naval base at Truk in the Carolines. From Rabaul the Allies also could strike behind the Japs' long Indies line, across the inner shipping lanes to Japan itself...
...importance at this stage of the war is geographical. The rugged plateau of Anatolia, insufficiently equipped though it is with roads or railways, is a bridge from the Middle East to one of Europe's softest spots, the Balkans. The islands just off Turkey's southern and southwestern coast are steppingstones for the sea road to an attack on Greece. And in the Middle East, across the bridge and beyond the steppingstones. Allied armies are growing...
...spring rains, said the report, a wide 1,500-mile swath curving from Oklahoma to Michigan and northern New York-one-quarter of all U.S. crop acreage -was now drenched. Some 4,000,000 acres had been flooded and knocked out of production for weeks. Farther west, in southwestern Kansas, South Dakota and the great pasture lands from Texas to southern Colorado, there was drought. Over the nation, crop prospects were the poorest in three years-result of the most unseasonable spring in years...
...MacArthur officers, Lieut. General George C. Kenney and Major General Richard K. Sutherland, had just returned to Australia from staff talks in Washington. The tone of General MacArthur's prayer indicated that he was not to be allowed enough power to drive up through Japan's southwestern bases, to the Philippines and Bataan...