Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canadian-born, he was sent to Alaska as a bishop in 1895, the year before the Klondike strike, learned to live in the arctic wilderness, travel behind a dog team, mushed 2,000 miles a year carrying out his duties. When he was 75 he abandoned the dog team for faster means of transportation. Four times he refused bishoprics in the U.S. His own wild diocese covered nearly 600,000 miles...
Warmer weather eases the strain of navigating the mist-curtained Arctic sea lanes to Murmansk. But such meteorological relief works alike for friend & foe. Last week Luftwaffe planes spotted a huge Allied convoy specking the slate-grey sea between Iceland and Norway's North Cape. They engaged the convoy in a running, four-day battle, claimed to have inflicted grave losses: 14 ships sunk, 16 damaged. No confirmation came from any Allied source...
...theory behind this is that one well placed bow and arrow or a single sled will teach more to the average observer than a case chock full of implements from which he will probably turn away in complete boredom. On the fifth floor, there is a collection of Arctic mummies donated the Museum by no less and earthy organization than the American Meatpackers' Institute. The story behind this gift is a curious one: a few years ago the Institute sent a former Anthropology 1 section man to the Arctic region to see if he could exist on meat alone. While...
Spring's coming to the Arctic may this year bring the biggest naval battle of the war. For centuries royal Trondheim, proud that it owned Norway's No. 1 cathedral, lived slumbrously and peacefully in its white wooden houses. Today its ancient slumber is gone: a Nazi nightmare has taken over...
Whether this report is true or not, Trondheim was by last week the chief Allied headache on the Arctic supply route to Russia, where, lately, headaches have grown more splitting. Lengthening daylight gives Nazi aircraft more time for reconnaissance. The southward drift of polar ice pinches the convoy channel dangerously narrow. Last week Germany claimed that the Luftwaffe had sunk a U.S. cruiser of the 9,100-ton Pensacola class and a U.S. destroyer, somewhere between Norway's North Cape and Spitsbergen, had scored hits on two more U.S. destroyers. Another Nazi news-bomb announced the sinking...