Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undergraduates will be aboard Commander Donald B. McMillan's Arctic exploration schooner "Bowdoin" when if calls June 21 from Boothbay Barbor. Maine, for an 8000 mile cruise to Greenland...
Aklavik's station CHAK, "The Friendly Voice of the Arctic," has no sponsored broadcasts, makes no money. Because Signals Corpsmen have the Army's work to do, too, this northernmost commercial station in the Western Hemisphere is on the air only three nights a week, gives its only day programs Saturday afternoon and Sunday. Programs consist chiefly of records, most of them old numbers donated by Aklavikans. Eskimos and Indians, says MacLeod, like cowboy songs best; whites prefer Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah and boogie-woogie. Sundays the station airs one church service after another-some in Eskimo...
Town Topics. CHAK's most important contribution to Arctic life is its free broadcast of personal messages. Every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, from 10 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Aklavikans can get in touch, via CHAK, with friends or relatives out trapping in the Mackenzie River delta country. Thus Nels Hvatum learned one night that his house in Aklavik had been destroyed by fire and two of his children killed. Last week, CHAK's listeners heard such messages as these...
Berendsen: Cannot anything be done to relieve some of the arctic blizzard to which some of the members at this end of the table are exposed...
...Arctic America has two species of lemming, similar to the Scandinavian but not so addicted to mass suicide by drowning, because their travel is mainly overland...