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...Leningrad through their telescopes. But they had not captured Leningrad, with its mastery of the Baltic, its way to Murmansk and the Murmansk supply route. The swastika flew within 115 miles of Moscow. But the Germans had not tak en the U.S.S.R.'s heart and capital, the vast railway system which rays out from Moscow and serves most of Russia...
Atlanta. Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sutton lived in a grey, asbestos-shingled cottage (rented) in a solid, modest, workingman's district. Ted Sutton, 38, was a truck driver for the Railway Express. On Sundays he was an usher at the Baptist Church, sang in the choir...
...practically all river transport around Shwebo had been sunk under orders, and as the railway was hopelessly jammed with refugees and later with some wounded and stranded, we formed a motor column composed of 14 jeeps, four sedans and about ten trucks, planning to go along by cart tracks as far as possible, then to walk. There was no other...
...Five Years. They read other news which seemed good: about how the Japanese, near the end of five years of war, had been forced to start a battle in Shantung Province, far in the north, near where the whole war had begun; about how they had bombed the Lunghai Railway, which the Japanese had tried to break almost as many times as the line has ties; and of course about how the American friends had beaten part of the Japanese Fleet. They spat when they read that the traitor Wang Ching-wei had gone to Manchukuo, where the Japanese were...
...refused to show up at Government-sponsored arbitration proceedings in Chicago, was probably playing tennis on his $65,000 indoor court in Peoria instead. He had one reason to feel good: two weeks ago-in the first case of its kind-he was acquitted of criminal violation of the Railway Labor Act. But McNear never expected to lose...