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Threads in a Web. Last time, U.S. supply lines ran like threads in a spiderweb in every direction to every corner of the world; last week they were spread across waters unmolested by enemy submarines to lands which-except for most of Korea -were friendly and grateful. In 1941 and '42, the U.S. had to build the war plants. In 1950, the plants were still there-they needed only reviving or retooling. Last time, the U.S. had no stockpiles to speak of, few tried war weapons; this time, it had fairly sizable stockpiles of some strategic materials (lead, bauxite...
During the Russian blockade of Berlin, some Russians were themselves blockaded in the U.S. sector of the city. They worked in the massive grey Reichsbahn-Direktion, headquarters of the Soviet-controlled railroad spiderweb radiating from Berlin. After the blockade, in last summer's railroad strike, 200 West Berliners charged into the building, tore down pictures of Stalin. That was enough for the Russians: they moved their railroad officials into the Soviet sector, leaving only an automatic rail-telephone switchboard and a small school for railroaders in the Direktion; 600 offices stood empty...
...these "backward" nations pointed out that it was only the protective tariff which had made 19th Century America so rich that it could afford to oppose protection. Argentina's Diego Luis Molinari (who refused to sign the charter) denounced I.T.O. as a U.S. plot, and as "an international spiderweb of Shylocks squeezing the heart of hungry multitudes...
Retire? Says spry Connie Mack, his face a spiderweb of wrinkles: "As soon as my players can tell me how the game should be played, and can prove the way I'm doing it is wrong, I'll retire...
...locomotives ever stopped whistling through the night, over the spiderweb tracks of city yards, past lonely water towers deep in the country, the whole nation would slow to a standstill...