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...city which the Russians lost and regained last year, then lost again last July. If the Russians once more take Rostov, the Germans in the Caucasus will be in immediate danger of losing their last route of supply or escape; the isolation of the Axis armies in the Don bend and at Stalingrad will then be complete. But Rostov last week was only the eventual objective of a campaign which was just beginning...
Clarke would take his wife to the cinema and walk home in the blackout by the Laytons Black Path. There Clarke would bend down to tie his shoelace. Swales was to beat Mrs. Clarke on the head...
...arms production and double its biggest peacetime year. Main reason: the company's remarkable ability in mass-producing intricate, 8,000-part, 1,200-h.p. Wright Cyclone engines for giant four-engined U.S. bombers. Studebaker turns them out in huge, sparkling, air-conditioned factories at South Bend, Ind., had speeded the job with time-killing machines like the 1 75-foot monster which finishes a cylinder head in 49 seconds v. 300 hours the old way. The go-year-old onetime wagonmakers also produce thousands of pug-nosed military trucks, auto & truck parts, plus some hush-hush military goods...
...long effort to break into the Don elbow and relieve Stalingrad from the German rear - the Russians won the positions from which they must now fight for the victory. They cleaned the Germans from a great, thinly defended patch, 50 to 100 miles deep, within the Don bend and west of the corridor between the Don and the Volga. They forced the Germans to establish a defense line on the Don's eastern bank, with their backs to Stalingrad, facing the Russians on the western bank. Then they broke the line by a brilliant assault upon the bedeviled Germans...
...curving tines of a peasant's pitchfork. From the southern force, moving along the Stalingrad-Novorossiisk railway, prongs also curved off. One jabbed across the Don, severed the Stalingrad-Rostov railway, cut back east to squeeze Axis troops against Stalingrad. In Stalingrad itself the 13th Division began to bend the stubborn German head backward...