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...Lithuanian doctor-farmer, Mykolas Devenis, was shipped to an Arctic labor camp after spending a year in prisons. "I was assigned to work as a physician," he said, "[but it] was just sham practicing, because there were no drugs and no facilities ... A physician's duties were just to find out whether a man was able to work." On a diet consisting largely of millet-seed soup and bread adulterated with sawdust, many prisoners died of scurvy and pellagra. Sturdy men in their 20s would sicken within a few months, lose their teeth and break out in unhealing sores...
...outdated weapon as a battleship. In war, one never knows what will come in handy. When British troops landed at Narvik, Norway in 1940, some of them, according to one report, carried saddles for riding elk. Some thoughtful supply officer, with an eye to the rigors of an Arctic campaign, had ordered them years before. The Navy now has four battleships and 15 heavy cruisers in operation; they cost somewhat more than elk saddles. An effective weapons policy has to be derived from a general military policy. It cannot be constructed by ordering all the things that might turn...
Island in the Sky (Warner) opens with a crash landing in the frozen Canadian North and closes, naturally enough, with the rescue of the survivors. Based on a novel by Ernest Gann, the film gives Director William (Battleground) Wellman a fine documentary chance to explore the hazards of arctic flying and to train his camera on a bleak but beautiful terrain (the picture was made, not in Labrador, but in the Donner Lake region of northern California). What slows things down is the high-blown rhetoric of the script, the tediously familiar characterizations of the flyers, and the endless invisible...
Canada's Liberal government, one of the free world's most durable political regimes, this week won its fifth straight term. In a national election, held in all ten provinces, in the Eskimo settlements of the Arctic, and at Canadian army camps in Korea and Europe, the Liberal administration led by Prime Minister Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 71, was swept back into office...
...superintendent of the Southern Pacific Railroad's Salt Lake Division, was named manager of the recently rehabilitated and overhauled Alaska Railroad, the only major road owned and operated by the Interior Department. Longtime Railroader Kalbaugh hopes to pump some life into the Alaska, which runs nearer the Arctic Circle than any other American road, and whose annual deficit ($585,000 last year) arrives as regularly as the spring thaw. Kalbaugh joined "So Pac" in 1919 as a clerk in the San Joaquin (Calif.) Division, worked his way up to superintendent of transportation in 1947, took over the Salt Lake...