Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prime Minister was careful to state that this is no "treaty" or "contractual obligation." Either nation can stop the collaboration at any time. It is only a "working arrangement," a bilateral declaration of principles intended to clear the air of wild rumors about U.S.-Canadian military intentions in the Arctic. The gist of the agreement is that the two countries will exchange military observers and armed-service personnel; they will make their military, naval and air facilities available to each other; they will try to standardize weapons...
...Navy planes flew up & down the icebound, roaring coasts of Little America, exploration was not the main purpose. But some genuine exploring was done. The Navy's Antarctic expedition was primarily interested in 1) bolstering U.S. Antarctic claims and 2) training Navy personnel for Arctic operations. Notable findings: great, mountain-bordered bays never mapped before (see map); a newly discovered peak, Mt. X-Ray (15,000 ft.); plenty of bare rock, of interest to mineral hunters...
...cold gripped the Whitehorse Valley of the Yukon. Nothing moved. If a man spat out of his doorway, the spittle exploded in mid-air with a sharp crack. It was 82.6° below zero; the lowest temperature ever recorded in North America. Aloft in the noonday gloom the wild, arctic winds tore mile-long snow streamers from the peaks and made a great yelling that the valley could not hear...
Reading about the Arctic trials of the U.S. Army's Operation Frigid, Americans of both hemispheres inevitably wondered about the state of their common defenses. For instance: What about the chain of bases the U.S. had constructed for hemispheric security during World...
...overabundance of frictions has arisen since the adjournment of the General Assembly. Military manuevers in the Arctic by the United States and Russia have created nervousness in both nations. The questions of atomic control and disarmament are as yet unsettled. With the writing of the German peace treaty and the World Economic Conference in the near offing, there is reason enough for the Big Three to make every effort possible to adjust their strained relations. The most effective way of doing this is for the respective leaders of the powers concerned to sit down with their advisors and discuss their...