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...Germans had moved fast, ten miles a day recently, a pace that in two more weeks would bring them to the river. Thus far Marshal Timoshenko had not tried to make a stand in this area. Evidently he had withdrawn his main forces northward to avoid being trapped in the Caucasus. Somewhere on the east-sloping steppes a stand now seemed inevitable...
...leaked out the order made sense aplenty. The contracts run for two and a half years, include all Lend-Lease needs and all the trucks the Army expects to use in a "reasonable war period." Now manufacturers can lay out longterm, sense-making production schedules, standardize operations and parts, avoid the waste and confusion of numerous small, haphazard orders...
...Hygiene Department has been quick to put it at the disposal of war conscious students. It is prepared to give the three precautionary injections necessary to any student wishing them. Here is an opportunity for anyone unsure of his reaction to anti-tetanus to play safe and avoid the possibility of later difficulties...
Home to the war went oak-hearted Winston Churchill, his dark blue Trinity House uniform damp with the spindrift of the high sea, his yachtsman's cap askew. Home to a nation which still believed it could avoid the war went broad-shouldered Franklin Roosevelt, faultlessly pressed, confident, characteristically hopeful of the world's destiny. They had kindled-so they hoped and perhaps believed-a fire that would be a light...
...Russians produced new tanks, which appalled the Japanese and probably postponed any plan for all-out war that Tokyo was nursing. Together these incidents made a fantastic chapter in modern war, a chapter possible only to two peoples who expected war some day, but mutually determined to avoid it until one or the other was ready...