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...would be out of place and in bad taste-on the contrary, we beg you to convey our best wishes to the boys, and the best of luck. We need lots of the same while struggling with Jack Frost-building an airport north of the General's boulevard terminus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 19, 1942 | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...been scorched. Here, midway between the Caspian and Black Sea, they were making a stand not only to protect Grozny's oil, but also to guard the main routes into the heart of the Caucasus and the richer Baku oilfields. Southwest of Grozny lies industrial Ordzhonikidze, terminus of the only two highways scaling the lofty range near its center. Both highways, the Georgian and Ossetian military roads, are tortuous, treacherous routes that mount 10,000 feet through gorges giving every advantage to the defender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Men & Mountains | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...Dutch West Indies. The other three surviving new applicants are Florida-born National Airlines; Aerovias Nacionales Puerto Rico; and Cuba's new Expreso Aero Inter-Americano. Meanwhile Pan American's own belligerent half-subsidiary Panagra (TIME, March 16) still has an application pending for a terminus in Miami, Tampa or New Orleans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Caribbean Network | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

...armies. One route, covering 4,500 miles, uses a railroad from the U.S. air supply base at Karachi in India, winds north through Kabul in Afghanistan to Samarkand in Russia. From there goods will be sent along the central Asia plains on the Turkestan-Siberian railway to the Soviet terminus at Alma Ata. The final stage is via the highway the Chinese built along the old Marco Polo trade route through Sinkiang and Kansu provinces to Chungking. The other route leads from Bushire on the Persian Gulf across Iran and then by water to Krasnovodsk on the Caspian Sea. From...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: He Who Has Reason | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...Toward Astrakhan, Soviet terminus of the Caspian supply route from Persia (see p. 33), the Germans advanced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Then They Will Know | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

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