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Between 1921 and last week Samara had been renamed Kuibyshev, after Valerian Vladimirovich Kuibyshev, who was head of the State Planning Commission and prime mover of the First Five-Year Plan when he died in 1935. The city had been refurbished, as the junction of important railroads joining Moscow, the Donets Basin and Siberia, as the location of an armature and carburetor factory famous throughout the U.S.S.R., as a cultural center with seven colleges, 18 technical schools, six scientific research institutes, six repertory theaters...
...Kiev's rear, and complete its encirclement (see map). Even more dangerous to Russian hopes was his capture of Kremenchug, 160 miles to Kiev's southeast. From there he could launch a north eastward drive on 150-mile-distant Kharkov, the Ukraine's big railroad junction and industrial center, threaten the Donets coal basin. Unconfirmed were reports that the Germans had also reached Perekop at the top of the Crimean Peninsula...
...Palmyra, Aleppo. The two columns coming from the northeast were parallel and 100-odd miles apart. The lower column, motorized, was to strike at Palmyra's airport, continue to Horns, which is an important highway junction with a 50,000 population. Then the column was to take over the end of the oil pipe-line at Tripoli...
Chungking is a rocky, corrugated tongue of land sticking out at the junction of the swift-flowing Kialing and Yangtze rivers. One evening last week, as the moon painted the rivers silver to guide the invading Japanese planes once more to their mark, the tongue squirmed and writhed in pain as never before...
...Mingo Junction, Idaho, with only a handful of college students from the town may well consider even a mediocre student in Fine Arts worthy of deferment. Brookline, Massachusetts, with almost every young man in college, will have to be much pickier when it comes to exemptions. Secondly, the total number of men to be called from the whole country is important to the July registrant figuring out his chances of being called. The details have not been worked out yet but the newly 21 year old group will probably be required to provide about as many men in proportion...