Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anglo-American invasion of Europe seems imminent. Allied leaders have promised again & again a many-pronged assault. The invading columns could spring from British and Mediterranean bases anywhere along the 4,000-mile front between the Arctic Circle and the Aegean Sea. But only action will reveal whether the many prongs will move simultaneously or in progression...
Photoperiodicity, still a brand-new theory, has little data as yet on the effect of light on man, but Professor Bissonnette notes that the long Arctic night seems to dull the mating urge among Eskimos. The professor hopes some day to investigate this report ; the American Philosophical Society and other scientific groups are already subsidizing his animal investigations...
...carnotite mines of Colorado and again when the Belgian Congo ceased to be the only profitable sources of radium. The third break in price occurred soon after the discovery in 1930 of a rich vein of pitchblende-the ore containing uranium and radium-at Great Bear Lake on the Arctic Circle in Canada (in North America only Lakes Superior, Huron and Michigan are larger...
...Germans of rich hunting in the South Atlantic. Possibly with an eye to further excuses, the Germans last week let out a report from Berlin that Russia is counting on a submarine-free supply route from the west coast of North America through the protected waters of the Arctic Sea. If this route is used instead of that to Murmansk, said the Berlin report, the Arctic convoys "will not lose one small thing...
...ATCmen such routes are no longer dreams. For months ATC has operated in the worst weather of the north subpolar country, has made operation routine. And no north-route flyer smiles as General George foretells the day when Americans may stop over on world trips in hotels on the Arctic icecaps, or make one-week round-trip business runs to Calcutta, Moscow or Chungking...