Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the war began, Russia had 137 weather stations north of the Arctic Circle; Norway had 75, Denmark five. From Greenland to Alaska there were only seven little weather stations-four of them in Canada. U.S. Army air bases established during the war left enormous areas still uncovered...
...airfield on the island of Hokkaido, some 500 miles north of Tokyo, and headed for Washington, D.C. Heavily loaded with 10,000 gallons of gasoline apiece, they hoped to make the trip in one hop. As they swept past Kamchatka, Russian fliers did acrobatics around them. Over Fairbanks, Alaska, when the outside temperature fell to 20 below, the crews idled about in shirtsleeves in their heated, pressurized cabins...
Good Hunting. The 1945 seal catch off Alaska's desolate Pribilof Islands was the largest (76,700 skins) since conservation of the decimated seal herd was started in 1911. An estimated 10,000 fur coats can be made from this year's $4 million catch...
Open Secret. In Ketchikan, Alaska, the Chamber of Commerce voted to hold an off-the-record meeting - and voted to have it broadcast...
...puddle, may soon get fast-hopping company. Last week Civil Aeronautics Board examiners recommended that Northwest Airlines, Inc. should be given a transpacific route. The examiners, whose findings are usually followed by CAB, recommended that Northwest fly the adventurous Great Circle route from Minneapolis-St. Paul to Manila via Alaska, Paramushiro, Tokyo and Shanghai. As Northwest now flies from New York to Minneapolis (TIME, Jan. 1), it would thus have the first direct service from New York to the Orient...