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...closer. Flax fields near Kalinin, rye fields around Kuibyshev, the great grain fields waving across the U.S.S.R.'s broad fertile land between northern forest and southern desert into the heart of Asia, all were black with hurrying harvesters. Thousands of new nurseries were opened to free mothers for tractor-driving. On the largest collective farms, dormitories were thrown up so that workers would not lose time by going home to sleep. Around Moscow 75,000 students spent their holidays harvesting...
Rostov, gateway to the Caucasus oil, was gone, with its arms and tractor plants. Gone, too, was control of the quiet Don's west bank. Gone was most of Russia's southern transportation system, the manganese, iron, mercury and food riches of the southwest. Ahead of the Germans lay the fabulous Baku oilfields. To win them the Nazis would not only have to complete the job of cutting off the southern lines of resistance, but cross the formidable Caucasus mountains. But if they took Stalingrad, now 75 miles beyond their grasp, the hardest part of the task would...
...gigantic statue of the lumberman's legendary hero, Paul Bunyan, and his blue ox, Babe. Last week, depressed by poor returns from his first one-man show in San Francisco, Barnes had a mind to hang a "war casualty" sign on Paul and get a job driving a tractor...
...Urals are the chief seat of Soviet Asia's industrial power, "the inner bastion of Russian defense." The Magnitogorsk Steel Mill, which since 1936 has produced the cheapest pig iron in Russia, supports a mushroom metropolis of 200,000. The Cheliabinsk Tractor Plant, the world's biggest, now turns out tanks and armored cars. Twenty years ago Ekaterinburg, where the last Tsar and his family were shot in a cellar, was a city of 25,000. Now renamed Sverdlovsk, it is the junction of seven railroad lines, has a population...
...Illinois, the axle load limit is 16,000 lb., over-all length limit for tractor and trailer combination is 35 feet, compared to 18,000 lb. and 40 feet in many other States. Truckers carrying Army shipments-loaded by the Army in sealed trailers and shipped on Government bills of lading-are repeatedly stopped and fined. (They cannot break Army seals to redistribute loads...