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...autumn offensive of Communist General Lin Piao's "United Democratic Army" had begun Oct. 1. Pinching from both sides of the Mukden-Changchun railway, it had quickly crunched more than 100 miles of the Government-held corridor. Changchun itself, which the Japanese had planned as the modern stone & steel capital city of Manchuria, was surrounded., The big iron works at Anshan (or what remained after Russian removals following V-J day) were at the edge of the Nationalist line, 55 miles south of Mukden. Communists pressed nearer the great open-pit coal mines at Fushun...
...crisp, clear weather favored the football games- Hamilton's Tigers lost to Toronto's Argonauts, 13 to 1. Over the northern prairies lay a heavy overcast; "fowl weather," said the gunners, setting out to shoot geese or ducks for the holiday table. At Mile 450, on the railway to Churchill, the Rev. W, E. Williamson hoped to bag a caribou, planned to share the meat with his Negro congregation in Chicago...
Even for stay-at-home Britons Wednesday was dreary. From that day there was no more gasoline for pleasure driving. On Wednesday, too, railway fares increased twopence to threepence on the shilling. Other Wednesday black marks: coal prices increased as much as six shillings a ton; the new clothing coupon period started, but now there were fewer coupons; under the Exchange Control Act, officials began opening parcels and letters suspected of containing notes or valuables. There was only one bright spot: Britons were at last permitted to turn on their heaters to combat the October evening chill...
...billion gallons of water. The Seine river, which fed it, was diverted by digging away 2,000,000 cubic yards of earth and rock for a new channel, and by constructing a system of dams and tunnels. The Canadian Government chipped in $5,200,000 for roads, a railway spur, power lines and a dock at Port Arthur to handle the ore. In 1944, a year after work was started, the first ore came out of the open pits...
Young was quite prepared for the attacks of such opponents as the Virginian Railway, a C. & 0. competitor in the coal-hauling business; of old enemies in the Nickel Plate, whose control he had given up; and of the Chrysler Corp., which said that it feared higher freight rates for automobiles because of less railroad competition. But Young was not prepared for a sharp heel in the teeth from the bride-to-be herself...