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...deadly game began early this summer. Anticipating Hitler's great offensive, the Red Army massed its men and guns in the Kursk-Belgorod sector. The Wehrmacht massed its strength south of Sevsk, near the center of the 300-mile-long chessboard...
...Army, subdivided into three army groups, has now been divided into many relatively small, fluid groups of armies which can be fused and split up again as the occasion demands. Three or five or seven groups may be thrown against one objective, regrouped and swung against another enemy sector under these tacticians and technicians of battle...
Whatever else was happening on the inflation front, the War Labor Board still stood firm in the Little Steel sector. Last week, in an announcement now as routine as late trains, WLB denied a raise to 1,000,000 A.F. of L. and C.I.O. shipyard workers, thus repulsed the greatest single mass attack yet made on the Little Steel formula...
...center and its northerly ports of entry, even the ground marches toward railway and other inland centers, supported the battles for the coasts. The U.S. Seventh Army, seizing the southwestern coast, conducted a great backstopping operation, holding down and drawing off sizable enemy forces from the decisive eastern sector. To that canny soldier and conqueror, General Montgomery, fell the task of taking the eastern coast...
...come-on-the-bridge-relieve-the-stern-lookout-sir?" he rattled off in a breath. The officer of the deck muttered: "Granted," returned to his own search of the darkness. Aft, the fresh-eyed lookout took the heavy Navy binoculars from the man on watch, began to scan his sector. Then his voice lifted over the wet mumble of the charging diesel: "Gunfire bearing one seven...