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What Voronov did in Finland, after Russia had had her first humiliating but educational reverse, set the pattern for today's battles. First, his artillerymen took positions far in the rear, practiced with replicas of the Finnish strongholds. Then they moved their heavy guns close to the Mannerheim Line. Firing over open sights at individual bunkers they methodically uprooted them, and the infantry moved in. For the feat, Stalin made him Colonel General of Artillery...
...solar activity was almost invariably followed (usually in 14 to 17 days) by a fall in earthly temperatures, and vice versa. A solar change of less than 1% sometimes caused a 10° change in temperature. Solar changes also seemed to affect the barometer according to a definite pattern. Pursuing these rhythms further, he learned that solar heat and weather alike had clearly marked cycles, ranging from eight months to 22¾ years, i.e., certain minor weather changes (after allowing for seasons and local conditions) tend to repeat themselves at eight-month intervals, and major changes in 22¾ years...
...central Alps and Himalayas. In Gilpin's view these geographical facts doomed the two continents to division, jealousy, rivalry and constant warfare. Russia, however, was the Eurasian exception: in topography and resources it was more like the U.S. Gilpin thought the U.S. and Russia would follow the same pattern of growth -the U.S. moving westward to the Pacific, Russia eastward to the Pacific...
...This pattern, arrived at on Tarawa, improved on Kwajalein, was last week perfected on Eniwetok, a roughly circular atoll 379 miles northwest of Kwajalein. Through Eniwetok the Japs had been staging their airplane supply to the Marshalls...
...getting the Luftwaffe's tremendous bombing of Belgrade, Warsaw, Rotterdam, London, Portsmouth, Coventry, Canterbury and other places of military, industrial and cultural importance. But Hitler is a barbarian. There is no decent person on the Allied side who thinks we should make him our pattern or attempt to beat competitors at that market." The Bishop feared that the R.A.F. bombings would bring Britain a "harvest of hate," and impede postwar relations. And did the R.A.F...