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...week (see p. 17), Representative Warren Magnuson of Seattle, Wash, was thinking about Alaska. Mr. Magnuson's thoughts were not as far-fetched as they may have seemed. They were based on the following strategic and geographic facts: 1) if Hitler beats Russia, he gets the Trans-Siberian Railway; 2) whoever has the Trans-Siberian Railway controls Siberia; 3) Siberia is little more than a Cyclopean stone's throw from Alaska...
...famed Burma Road; more were coming. Three complete repair and maintenance shops were being assembled for the rusty, work-worn trucks of China's highway system. Road-building equipment was en route. So were medical supplies. Steel for the construction of a new Yunnan-Burma railway was promised. Most important news of all to China's powder-grimed riflemen: ordnance and arsenal equipment was being given them...
...ever-growing curse of the congested business streets of most big cities is their lack of coordination. Manhattan's Sixth Avenue has been one of the world's most turbulent and cross-purposed examples. Its elevated railway, originally constructed for steam trains, clattered relentlessly over a darkened street where tramcars, busses, taxis and trucks cacophonously disputed passage. Beneath its vibrating steel structure, messenger boys of the world's biggest clothing center further clotted the traffic by trundling loads of furs, hats and dresses in pushcarts. Sixth Avenue bristled with slums that had once been factories, factories that...
Seaboard Airline Railway...
...Kaiser, Germany once more swelled with power and pride; once more she threatened to burst her boundaries. Under Wilhelm, Germany built a mighty Navy to threaten Britain, a mightier Army to threaten France and Russia, a mighty economy which threatened to follow the Kaiser's pet Berlin-Bagdad Railway to domination of the Middle East (see p. 22). The Triple Entente was born of this fear. Cried the Kaiser to Reporter Hale in the Bergen fjord...