Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white-&-blue ribbon, severed in the middle, fluttered in the Arctic wind. The first U.S.-to-Alaska land route (TIME, Aug. 31) was formally open. Trucks began rolling supplies along the 1,500 miles of double-lane, partly graveled highway from Fort St. John, B.C. to Fairbanks in the heart of Alaska...
Every day thousands of parcels addressed "For the guerrillas" arrive in Moscow. Collective farmers of Siberia recently sent 4,000 packages. Each contained kitbag, leather boots, raincoat, tobacco, knives, compass. From the remote Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya came parcels of furs and dried fish...
Seaman Herman remembered it precisely. It was 11:30 in the morning, Sunday, Sept. 13, when the Germans opened their attack. The convoy was off Spitsbergen, in the Arctic Ocean...
...crew of the St. Roch set out in June 1940 to: 1) take the schooner from Vancouver to Halifax for patrol duty in the Atlantic; 2) supply the permanent Mounted Police arctic posts along the way; 3) take the Eskimo census. Before they reached Sydney, N.S., the tough team and the tough ship had backtracked Explorer Roald Amundsen's famous three-year east-to-west trip across America's top. They had added valuable information to the world's expandingly accurate geography, survived the Arctic's most treacherous dangers, dutifully performed their assigned tasks...
Plainer Sailing. For the rest, the trip was arctic normal...