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...command of the Army Engineers' big Southwestern Division, Colonel Robert Reese Neyland Jr., coach of the Eastern Army football team, formerly coach at the University of Tennessee...
...shareholders promptly withered. The price of New Haven common fell 50% overnight. Professional speculators took ICC at its word, with the result that Wall Street saw some strange phenomena: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific 6% preferred with eight months' earnings of $20.43 a share sold for 75?; St. Louis Southwestern common with earnings of $19.69 a share hung around $4 (bid); Missouri Pacific with earnings of $19.06 a share sold...
WASHINGTON--U. S. Marine and Naval forces, firmly entrenched in six islands of the Solomon group, have shot down seven more Japanese planes in hurling back two strong enemy air attacks on American positions in the strategic Southwestern Pacific islands, the Navy Department announced tonight...
...rail communications and its value as an anchor for the Red army's sagging southern line. The Nazis had the important manufacturing city of Voroshilovgrad, but they did not yet have Rostov, important for its factories, for access to the Caucasus, and as the Red army's southwestern anchor. Above all, the Germans had not yet crossed the Don at its eastern bend, where it would be most difficult and most urgent for them to cross. And, until they did cross and conquer the tough alley between the Don and the Volga, Stalingrad was safe from direct land...
...helped rout the railroads, who squawked about granting needed rights-of-way. There were some practical objections to a pipeline, but Ickes went right ahead. His first scheme was a project from Southwestern oilfields to Philadelphia and New York, to cost $70,000,000. The since-defunct SPAB figured that the 430,000 tons of steel required were needed more in ships and tanks...