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There would be logic aplenty for such dealings. Eastern expects to operate a postwar route from the U.S. to the Canal Zone, northern terminus of Panagra, which operates down the Andean-wrinkled west coast of South America to Chile, and over the hump to Buenos Aires. Such a hookup would give Panagra its long-sought entrance into the U.S., and give Eastern through connections on the short route to Latin America. Pan American Airways, which now ferries Panagra traffic between the U.S. and Balboa, could be bypassed...
Chungking sorely needed straws of hope to grasp. With dismaying speed the Japanese were surging toward Kweiyang, all-important rail terminus and highway junction linking China's capital to the southwest. If Kweiyang fell, the delivery end of the Burma Road would be cut, the Japs would be only 235 air miles from Chungking itself...
...would have to be done with arms and supplies shipped in along a reopened Burma Road and an expanded airline over the Hump. While ill-supplied Chinese were dying hopelessly at Kweilin, well-supplied Chinese were fighting hopefully and successfully in the jungles of Burma, closing in on Bhamo, terminus of the northern (alternate) branch of the Burma Road...
Negro soldiers, entraining for overseas duty, paused to look at the patriotic poster spread across the wall of a railroad terminus. "What You Are Fighting For!" boomed the slogan under a sea of proud, anxious American faces. The Negroes "gave the eye-catching picture a swift glance and then snapped their heads away, almost as if by command." Every face on the poster was white...
Through the multicolored spruce and birch forests the fight went on. Soon winter would freeze the hundreds of lakes and rivers, blanket the forests with snow. In the north the Russians landed six miles from Petsamo, at the northern terminus of the Arctic highway, marched in to capture the port three days later. When the Russians neutralized Kirkenes and the Finns reached Rovaniemi, organized German resistance could no longer continue. Then Finland would have peace...