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...chance. If the German tide broke against the mountains, Russia would have salvaged something from this year's fighting. Baku, would yield some 13,000,000 barrels of oil monthly. There would be no direct shipping route to the main Red Army, but there would still be a waterway up the Caspian to the Ural River, another across the Caspian to the Krasnovodsk terminus of the Turk-Sib railway, which loops northward through Central Asia to Samara and the Middle Volga...
...rest, seared and oil-blackened, went overside, were carried out into the Gulf, there picked up by a Coast Guard cutter. Only 14 of her 41 lived to tell how they were attacked, only a mile and a half off the mouth of the country's greatest inland waterway. The U.S. Navy, faced with a greater-challenge than it had met in domestic waters since 1812, knew that it could never stop the filtering of the U-boats through its line until it had destroyed them...
With one other invasion blow, the Japs could grab all they need of Australia for their immediate purposes. This blow would probably fall on two points: Cape York at the northern extremity of Australia's eastern coast, Gladstone at its center. Object: to close the inland waterway between the eastern shore and 1,200-mile-long Great Barrier Reef, give the Japs a protected channel more than half way from Cape York to the great port and naval base at Sydney. In Gladstone the Japs would take away one of the few oil depots the Allies have...
...unofficially, far more than the U.S., which paddled a poor second with 29. One of the breaststroke stars on the Jap team was a crop-haired lad named Reizo Koike. The Japanese announced last week that Reizo Koike had trained a school of swimmers who churned across the narrow waterway between Kowloon and Hong Kong, located British mines, exploded them with rifles, made possible crossings by Japanese troopships...
Drafted last week to a job for which he has long been pointed and is ably qualified to handle was expert, hard-working ICC Chairman Joseph B. Eastman. The job: director of newly created Office of Defense Transportation, over all rail, highway, airway, waterway (including coastal and intercoastal) and pipeline services. ODT is the greatest challenge to Eastman in his long career-that of wartime coordinator of all U.S. transportation. His task...