Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlantic base be secured. There was no question that if Britain fell Canada would present a big defense problem-not only around Quebec that was the key to the North in the days of Wolfe, but northward through the sparsely inhabited, partly explored regions of the Northwest Territories, through Arctic tundra, through forests of spruce, balsam, white pine as wild as was the American frontier, along vast Canadian rivers like the Mackenzie, navigable for 1,825 miles, that flows into the Arctic Ocean. Said the Herald Tribune: "Such a treaty would be the logical and inevitable culmination...
...just one and a half miles away and across the International Date Line (see map). The crew said that Russian workmen were building an airplane hangar on Big Diomede, replacing its radio station with a bigger one, that Big Diomede with its smooth ice runways ten months of the Arctic year, was being made into an advance weather, communications and flying station...
...miles farther west than Hawaii) lies the Navy's outmost listening post, Kiska Island, which can be used as an advance base for air and submarine operations. Closer in toward Kodiak is a bigger station, Dutch Harbor, famed as landing place for naval patrol boat flights on Arctic training...
...Arctic weather has a bag of tricks that cannot be learned in occasional nights to Alaska or midwinter operations in Minnesota. This winter, many a service pilot and mechanic who has worked at San Diego and Shreveport will head north to beat new enemies-sudden fogs, icing weather, sub-zero temperatures that make engine-starting tough. New hangar and field equipment will have to be designed and tested, new cold-weather clothing tried out. From now on, Alaska becomes a permanent station of U. S. defense...
France's shoulders went back against the wall last week. No sooner had his Armies taken Dunkirk, consolidating his hold on the western coast of Europe "from the Arctic Circle to the north of the Somme," than Adolf Hitler hurled them southward against the remaining Armies of Allied Generalissimo Maxime Weygand along a 160-mile front stretching from Abbeville to Rethel...