Word: arctic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manhattan's galleries were off to a flying 1953 start with some 30 new shows open last week. Gallerygoers could choose to see almost anything from mild Bermuda landscapes to bleak views of the Arctic or carvings from the Congo. But the standout exhibition was home-town work: 119 paintings by two Greenwich Village women who rank among the top U.S. artists. Both are considered abstractionists, but the term covers a lot of ground and their paintings are as different as cumulus and calculus...
Building trades councils of the A.F.L.got wind of the project, objected that prefabs assembled by soldiers took work away from union members. The unions threatened strikes on other vital construction. The Army faltered, retreated from its housing plans; some Arctic-type tents were ordered. Last week the G.I.s began to store the crated prefabs. While the wind shrieked outside, the 52nd was back under canvas...
...military transport planes winged over the Pacific on an average of one every 45 minutes; an Arctic flight or an Atlantic crossing took place every hour and 15 minutes. One Alaska-based squadron chalked up 700 North Pole crossings over a five-year period...
Besides romance, Never Wave at a WAC offers some wacky comedy. The society girl is assigned as a guinea pig to rigorous tests of arctic uniforms supervised by her ex-husband. The not-too-bright stripteaser, who wants to be a Mata Hari, finally gets a job as a chauffeur for intelligence...
...Tommy Atkins . . . Like his British colleague, the American soldier was an amateur, and reared to mistrust the posturings of professional militarists ... A civilian at heart, he drove his tank as if it were a long-distance truck on U.S. Route 1, set out from British ports on Arctic convoys or anti-submarine patrols as if he were taking the family across to Staten Island, and bombed-up a Flying Fortress as though he were loading the mails from Bismarck for Butte, Montana...