Word: frontierisms
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...first won military distinction by applying his science on the battlefield. At McGill University, after boyhood on the Saskatchewan frontier, he studied for a commission in Canada's small peacetime army while he also distinguished himself as a student of electricity. In 1914 he was a major in a battery of field artillery; he left his job in a McGill laboratory to go to France. In 1918 he was a brigadier general, commanding the Canadian Corps' heavy artillery...
Siberia's Far East extends 3,450 air miles. Its coastline is nearly twice that long. The Manchukuoan frontier alone is as long as Europe's Eastern Front. The Trans-Siberian railroad has been double-tracked all the way to Vladivostok, but is extremely vulnerable. If it were cut, the chief cities - Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, Komsomolsk-would be isolated. Further north two new lines are being rushed. Biggest industrial enterprise in the Far East is the Chapcherginsk Tin Combinat, which produces 65% of all Soviet tin. No. 1 industrial center is Komsomolsk, where the Amur Steel Works turn...
...hostile forces of Germany, Italy and their satellites. For months at a time little is heard from Yugoslavia's private second front, and this arouses fear that resistance is ending. But last week reports from southeast Europe told of widened Yugoslav operations that spread even across the Croat frontier into Italy. South of Zagreb fighting was in progress for two communications centers, while in Serbia Mihailovich's forces had repulsed an onslaught by one German, one Bulgarian and two or three Italian divisions, far outnumbering the Yugoslav patriots...
...Britain. Squadrons of giant four-motored Lancasters swept down on the former Free City in the early evening, while it was still daylight, to dump heavy bomb cargoes on submarine-building yards and other targets. Other squadrons simultaneously attacked Flensburg, another U-boat spawning ground at the Danish-German frontier. Unofficial statements that three bombers missing from the operation constituted a loss of less than 5% was indication that something over 60 bombers took part in the attack, aided by a cloud cover over the target areas...
...harder than before. He received the Indian National Congress Party Working Committee to discuss ways of continuing to protest British rule. Among those present: huge, bearded Abdul Gaffar Khan, a Moslem who spends his life preaching Hindu Gandhi's nonviolence principles to the fierce Pathans of the Northwest Frontier Province; the Congress Party's spade-bearded Moslem President, Maulana Abdulkalam Azad, who gesticulates like a French prefect; the poetess and veteran Congresswoman, Madame Sarojini Naidu, Gandhi's principal female disciple, who calls him Mickey Mouse; India's second-best-known citizen, handsome, socialistic Jawaharlal Nehru...