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...Chiang Kai-shek was surprised, it was a flash reflex. He knew the Japanese too well for shock. The blast of bombs in Pearl Harbor was the amplified echo of an explosion along a Manchurian railway ten years ago. Since that day Chiang's Government, like some dusty, neglected Cassandra, had warned the Western Powers time & again that some day the Japanese Army would turn on them as it had on China...
...four years of war against almost wingless China. But Tokyo's seven millions live in an area the size of Chicago;* half their million homes are built of wood and paper. The city's three main highways are only 40 feet wide; its four inadequate railway terminals are choked even by holiday traffic. Water reserves are inadequate, fire-fighting equipment is antiquated. In the Philippines the U.S. also had a tinder-box capital (see p. 77), but the U.S. had enough bombers to make a death trap of Tokyo...
Most people, however, do not use shelters at all. Especially after a long lull in bombing, the subways in London are almost empty, with citizens preferring to take their chances in their own homes. Among the unique shelters used by Londoners are the arches of the railway viaducts, under which they ran instinctively because "their fathers used them to escape Zeppelin attack...
WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt's special fact-finding board tonight announced settlement of the wage dispute between railway management and labor, thus averting a nation-wide railroad strike scheduled for December...
...place called Rostov was, according to the announcer's voice, a very important one. It controlled the mouth of the great River Don. It lay athwart the oil pipeline from the Caucasus. It was a key point in the best railway line between the Caucasus and the capital. And, most important, it would be the linchpin of the imminent German attack on the Caucasus itself...