Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plowing through icy Arctic waters, the Liberty ship Chief Washakie was 45 miles off Unalaska Island on the blustery night of last Dec. 10. At 10:22 her master was startled out of a sound sleep by a sound "like cannon fire"; the Washakie had split her sides open. Held together by her double bottom, the ship limped into Makushin Bay for temporary repairs, then headed for Dutch Harbor 48 miles away...
...Nazi troops and ships, calling for Russian help if necessary (as it probably would be); restore the 1940 frontier and agreement with Russia; release all Russian and Allied prisoners and internees. Reparations due Russia, demobilization of the Finnish Army and the future of the port of Petsamo on the Arctic may be discussed in Moscow later. At week's end, the Finns were still thinking it over...
...infested waters off West Africa, must be rebuilt to restore prewar transatlantic and Pacific services. The airline, providing Ottawa does not choke it off entirely in favor of Canada's "chosen instrument" T.C.A., will need new planes and bases for routes extending from the U.S. border to the Arctic Circle. These improvements will cost millions, and will go far toward keeping Canadian industry busy when war orders are canceled...
Usafi can supply servicemen with self-teaching texts in 15 major fields of high-school and basic college studies. Among the topics: physics, arithmetic, geometry, algebra, shorthand, automobile mechanics, bookkeeping. Beyond the Arctic Circle, in the Southwest Pacific and in other remote posts, where the rarity of mail deliveries makes correspondence study impracticable, servicemen lean heavily on the self-teachers...
Under such handicaps the White Sea League played ball. In Manhattan last week the story of U.S. sports 100 miles below the Arctic Circle was told by a member of the so-called "Forgotten Convoy"-four merchant ships marooned near Archangel from May to November last year...