Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long flights over the desolate Arctic, the Army's big Alaska-based B-29s were writing a new textbook on polar flying. Last week they scribbled a new chapter in a hurry...
...Alaska to Iceland. 4. New York to Tokyo...
From Cuba to Cambridge to a lonely Overseer in Juneau, Alaska, University officers and students will fell a slight tweak at their pocketbooks as over 100 solicitors, by mail and in person, begin collecting this evening...
...Fairbanks, Alaska, where the temperature was 26° below zero, ladies of easy virtue ceased to advertise their charms by rapping on sporting house windows with a silver dollar. The more functional substitute: a safety razor blade. When scraped across a window pane it produced a sound approximating the love call of a snipe. More important, it scraped the ice off the glass, enabled passing gents to peer...
...TIME, Feb. 25, 1946), on which U.S. observers went along, was one test. So was the U.S. "Operation Frostbite"-the northern trip of the aircraft carrier Midway, which carried a Canadian observer. The U.S.Army's midwinter tests of men and machines in 60°-below-zero weather in Alaska and in the Aleutians this year also have had Canadian observers on hand...