Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...covered fighting in Finland all the way from 250 miles north of the Arctic Circle to the great battles on the ice at Lake Ladoga 600 miles to the south. He was bombed by the Nazis in Norway until his teeth chattered-sizzled with the Aussies in the sands of Libya-flew with British bombers from Greek fields when they raided the Italians at Brindisi. After that he covered the Greek campaign from the fighting in the Albanian mountains to the tragic evacuation of the Australians and the British from the Greek ports. Hell-bent for more...
...Secretary of Commerce for Air, who had kindled this fire. Cried Hinckley: "History has faced us with the plain alternative: Fly-or die! The entire nation must become air-conditioned. . . . We shall be thoroughly air-conditioned when we are not startled by the proposal that school children visit the Arctic by transport plane to study Eskimos in their native habitat...
...same from the Arctic to the Mediterranean. There was nothing to hinder the Nazis but the hatred they bred. Europe waited for the United Nations to act. The United Nations waited for Churchill and U.S. military men to make up their minds...
Last week the commander, Rear Admiral Edye Kington Boddam-Whetham (pronounced boddom-wettem), proudly told the story himself in Moscow. Weathered, towering (6-ft.-3) Admiral Boddam-Whetham had good reason for proud chuckles: he had just brought safely into Russia's Arctic ports the biggest convoy in history. A large part of it had come all the way from the Hudson River...
...village, where, in baggy tweeds, basket on arm, he did his own marketing. Behind him were almost 40 years in the navy as commander of various destroyers and of the battleship Queen Elizabeth. Five weeks after retirement he was back in uniform, assigned chiefly to duty on the perilous Arctic convoy route, where his sailor's fear of fog and ice found ample justification...