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Greatest of these possibilities is the recapture of Rostov, the southern railway and factory 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...
Died. Walter Patten Murphy, 69, often called "richest bachelor," boxcar manufacturer (Standard Railway Equipment), donor of Northwestern University's $6,735,000 Technological Institute; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. He built a fortune estimated at $80,000,000 on his development of a corrugated steel end for boxcars. He kept his private life so private that when he made his gift to Northwestern in 1939 the university had to look him up in Who's Who to find...
Crowned last week was the cleverest, scrappiest U.S. railroad king of the New Deal era. The new king was ruddy-faced, grey-haired, Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Chairman Robert Ralph Young, 45, who has direct or indirect control of 23,000 miles of track rambling through 21 States...
...Russians cut the railway between Rzhev and Vyazma. They cut the chief highway serving Rzhev. They cut two railways north and south of Velikie Luki. They took positions between Velikie Luki and the pivotal German strongpoint at Toropets. Artillery, tanks and infantry, including ski troops, within 48 hours had repeatedly broken through the outer line of the rectangle, flowed around the German's mighty fortress at Rzhev and all but isolated some 75,000 German troops there. Very near Rzhev, where Red Army troops had won a foothold last September, they attacked the suburbs of the city itself...
...last week the plan had attracted so much attention that Whitney hurried to Washington to discuss its details with ODT and railroad officials. Whitney thinks the plan might be made nationwide, extended to include all other railway labor, and would be workable within other industries...