Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arctic realism, the vital-statistics reports of the U.S. Bureau of Census have no rival. In a report made available last week, one lonely note of promise shivered among lowering facts: whereas in 1900 some 3,080,498 U.S. citizens lived to the age of 65, today the number is 9,019,314, and by 1980 it is estimated that double that number will reach 65, even make it past the classical three-score...
Mindful of extreme-weather needs, the Army last week added two new uniforms to its wardrobe for far-ranging WACs and nurses, one for tropical and one for arctic areas...
Every day of the week but one, scores of letters pour in to the editors of TIME. They come from Sauk City and Seattle and Syracuse, from islands in the Pacific and towns just south of the Arctic Circle. They ask questions, make suggestions, correct errors, give added facts about the news subscribers read in TIME...
...been four and a half years since the Wehrmacht swooped down on thunderstruck Norway in April 1940. Now, as the Nazi sun was sinking, the first little sliver of Norway was freed. Last week, far north in the Arctic, where Norway borders on Finland, the Russians pounded over the line in pursuit of the Germans, then took over the iron-ore port of Kirkenes, used by the Germans as a submarine and air base against the Allied northern sea route to Russia, and fought on some 15 miles westward...
Larsen joined the R.C.M.P., not to be a policeman but to become an Arctic mariner for the force. His ship, the St. Roch, was specially built for Arctic voyaging. A diesel-powered schooner, she was built of timbers two-thirds heavier than those used in any ordinary craft. Her hull is sheathed in Australian ironbark-the only wood that can stand the grinding pressure of the pack...