Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aklavik in the icy Arctic came Fur Trader Stan Peffer (also a hotel owner, grocer, theater operator, sawmill proprietor). In Edmonton on his annual business trip south last week he told a tale that sounded prehistoric...
Explanation: nothing is rationed in Aklavik (the population of 757 would not justify the trouble) and Aklavikans get priorities because of their isolation and the importance of the Arctic fur trade...
...units, Stockholm said, had launched "a very heavy attack" on the northern Finnish front, in the frozen wastelands above the Arctic Circle...
...Army Air Forces and the Navy have both issued books for flyers on how to survive on foot in jungle, desert, sea and frozen North. Having absorbed 174 pages of advice on getting along in such places as the Solomons and the Arctic, servicemen read hardest an owlish chapter, tagged on to the Navy book, on how to get along in the U.S. Excerpts...
...English, of course) with all the news from our regular U.S. editions-and copies are quickly placed on sale at 2,000 newsstands from Malmö (where you can smell the smoke of burning Berlin when the wind is from the south) to Boden, 50 miles from the Arctic Circle...