Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks the crew of seven lived inside the PBY (with sleeping space for four), stranded on an uncharted peak 400 miles below the Arctic Circle. Lieut. Glister, navigator, told the story...
...head of the Army Air Forces' reconditioning program, laid out the schooling with courses in chemical warfare, camouflage, radio, model aircraft building, mathematics and a special course for illiterate soldiers. At Dale Mabry Field in Florida, convalescents' courses range from identification of Japanese air craft to Arctic warfare. Officers, their wives, Red Cross workers and college professors lecture on such subjects as "Our Latin American Neighbors" and "How to Keep in Fighting Trim in Africa." The Army has made the happy discovery that such work not only makes better and wiser men; it also shortens convalescence, speeds sick...
...piece band in a solo rumba routine known as the Golpe de Bibijajua (derived from the limping walk of one of North Africa's largest insects). The band is brassy and solid, without Cugat's high romantic perfumery. Machito accepted La Prensa's honors with almost arctic calm. Said he: "I was no surprised. Cugat, he is ... commercial...
Last spring Hobbs and Comstock discovered that the Army was shipping heavy steel huts all the way from Quonset, R.I. to the Arctic. These huts were not too satisfactory. The partners at once thought of making plywood and Masonite huts right in Seattle. In 21 days they designed their round, spruce-ribbed hut, sold the Army an educational order for 85. The first ones turned out so well that by September they had Army encouragement to build a new plant. They raised $100,000 to buy an abandoned shipyard and an adjoining gas station, built...
...Charles Franklin Brooks, professor of Meteorology and Director of Blue Hills Observatory, announced last night that the sudden wave of sub-zero weather was caused by a movement of extremely cold air from the Arctic region. The great amount of snow coupled with this movement has driven all warm air from the region...