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...Neal, who knows that Patton has the respect and support of A.F. of L., C.I.O. and the Railway Brotherhoods, romped & stomped over Patton's promise that the farmer and organized labor can be brought to agree to wage and fair-price ceilings. O'Neal, on no such good terms with labor, swore it could not be so. If O'Neal was right, any effective inflation-control program was a political impossibility. His big head bobbing in emphasis, Patton drove home his answers. Patton remained calm, sure of his ground. O'Neal was mad enough to burst...
...Army advanced six miles near the confluence of the Gzhat River and the mighty Volga's headwaters. Bridgeheads were established across the Gzhat. The Russians met terrific resistance from Germans holding a railway line until a simultaneous frontal and flank assault forced a Nazi retreat. Day after day the Russians hammered forward across the Volga and into the outskirts of Rzhev. House by house the Germans defended the city which had been their most advanced headquarters on the northern front. Churches and other thick-walled structures had been turned into small fortresses, with mortars and machine guns...
...Army and illumined the crisis which it faces as the Germans roll southeast through the Caucasus into Russia's richest oilfields. Already the Germans had taken the Maikop fields and were thrusting into the Grozny region, only 100 miles from the Caspian. Thus far they had followed a railway paralleling the Greater Caucasus range, which towers east to west between the Caspian and Black Seas. Marshal Fedor von Bock was apparently taking the classic invasion route, by way of the Caspian coastal plain to Baku. There were only three other routes, all difficult. One was the narrow Black...
...Baku, would yield some 13,000,000 barrels of oil monthly. There would be no direct shipping route to the main Red Army, but there would still be a waterway up the Caspian to the Ural River, another across the Caspian to the Krasnovodsk terminus of the Turk-Sib railway, which loops northward through Central Asia to Samara and the Middle Volga...
Died. Stephen Horthy, 38, Vice-Regent of Hungary, son and heir of 74-year-old Regent Nicholas Horthy; reportedly in aerial combat on the Russian front. A noted sportsman, flyer and amorist, he was a pal of Nazi bigwigs, who allegedly rewarded him with the presidency of the State Railways (rumor said he helped to finance the Hungarian Nazi movement with railway funds). His possible successor: ex-Hungarian Minister to Brazil Nicholas Horthy Jr., the Regent's younger...