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...Japanese on the coast, while Naval authorities decommissioned 1,000 Japanese fishing boats by removing their carburetors. Vancouver had three blackouts, the first of which sent 30 traffic accident victims to the hospital. The mayor of Victoria panicked the citizens by declaring: "The Japanese are off the Aleutian Islands. We expect them here any time. The situation is very serious...
Under these conditions in Yakutat, Kodiak, Sitka, Anchorage, from Annette out along Alaska's trunklike Aleutian Islands to Dutch Harbor in Unalaska, men were desperately at work excavating, blasting rock, building a string of fortifications. When the big job was done, the U.S. would have a 2,000-mile flagstone path toward Asia and a natural rampart bristling with man-made ramparts...
...proportion to the three stripes on its commander's shoulder boards. From Midway's dredged-out central lagoon (landing place for Pan Am Clippers) the largest Navy seaplane tenders can mother a fleet of patrol bombers, ranging as far north as Alaska's Aleutian chain, south to Pago Pago, west to the edges of Japan itself...
...Alaskan defense, expects to appropriate from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 more in the next few months. The Army is hard at work building new airfields; Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said the Navy's new base at Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutian Islands, will be ready Sept. 1.* But air and naval bases alone cannot transport or supply the kind of army that would be needed to protect Alaska from invasion...
...looks for the significance of 1) cranial changes in human evolution. 2) cranial differences among men today. The significance is harder to detect than the differences. Eskimos have bigger heads than white men but are little if any brighter. The three largest skulls on record belong to an Aleutian Islander (capacity: 2,005 c.c.), an Algonquin "contemporary" of Pocahontas (2,200 c.c.), Russian Novelist Ivan Turgenev (2,030 c.c.). Recently Dr. Hrdlička examined the heads of 150 members of the National Academy of Sciences, which the Smithsonian calls "one of the most distinguished intellectual groups in the world...