Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gusty, chilling winds pushed belligerently down from the Arctic and out onto the great plains, and warned wheatgrowers to hurry with the last of the harvesting. Along the country roads of Ontario and Quebec, the white breath of horses pulling farm wagons marked the imminence of winter as much as the opulent piles of stacked hardwood in the sheds...
When the war began, Russia had 137 weather stations north of the Arctic Circle; Norway had 75, Denmark five. From Greenland to Alaska there were only seven little weather stations-four of them in Canada. U.S. Army air bases established during the war left enormous areas still uncovered...
This sketchy weather plotting has been tough on U.S. weathermen, for the chief cause of northern-hemisphere weather is the "heat balance" between the cold arctic air mass and the warm air near the equator. Lacking exact information about the extreme north, the Weather Bureau could only make shrewd guesses...
Chicago had arctic weather on Dec. 9, 1932; when big, red-faced Traffic Police man William D. Lundy went off duty in mid-afternoon it was 11° below zero in the drab Southwest Side. Shivering, he headed for Vera Walush's delicatessen, a cheap speakeasy, and stamped through into the dark kitchen in the rear...
...tiny, ugly collection of frame bunkhouses and mills squats forlornly on the shore of remote Great Bear Lake, in Canada's Northwest Territories. It is 1,400 miles north of the nearest railhead (at Waterways, Alberta), and 26 miles south of the Arctic Circle, in a part of the continent bleak with long, cold winter nights. The village has no official name, but it is sometimes called Radium City. Last week it suddenly found itself part of an all but incredible world drama, for under its fir-bearded slopes lies the stuff of which atomic bombs are made...