Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark--The United States Government today asked Germany and Russia to surrender the American freighter City of Flint and her crew of 41, captured by a sea-raiding German warship in the Atlantic last Friday and taken to Kola Bay in the Arctic...
Last week this Broadway drama of hardships was bleak reality. As the farmers of Matanuska Valley, after four years' uneven struggle against mounting debts for machinery and equipment supplied by the Government, prepared to reap the best harvest in years and write off some of their obligations, an Arctic blast sent the mercury down to 10° below zero. Potatoes froze in the field, 80% of the grain stood in the field, unharvested and ruined, acres of market produce were destroyed, and under a foot and a half of snow the Valley lay in white, stricken silence...
Last week the 51,731-ton luxury liner Bremen, missing for six weeks, was discovered in the place where she had been most generally believed to be hiding-Murmansk. The pride of the German merchant marine* had been sitting in Russia's only ice-free Arctic port for a full month. The account of her hair-raising northward run from New York, through the British blockade to sanctuary, came from Elbert Post, ship's cook, only Dutchman in her crew. Repatriated, he gave the story of the Bremen's, last voyage to the Amsterdam newspaper, Het Volk...
Back in Texas, Elijah William Cunningham went to work as a reporter for the Dallas News, at the same time coached Southern Methodist University's football team. One of his jobs as a reporter was to interview Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Bill, married only a few days, took his bride along to impress her. But Stefansson was irritable. Said he: "If you are any kind of reporter you won't need to take notes." Thereupon he tore through a staccato monologue, dismissed his interviewer...
...during the last week. This statement is true, if Mr. Churchill does not regard the sinking of a ship as molestation." *A large proportion of Sweden's normal annual 8,000,000 tons of iron ore for Germany comes from the ice-free port of Narvik on the Arctic Ocean and around down the Norway coast. This will be cut off by the British blockade...