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...spring of 1945, the Russians arrested Landowner von Thadden and sent him to Arctic Russia, with other German prisoners, for eight months. To help his fellow prisoners, he began to give short prayer services in the camp. Before long, nearly everyone was attending. Says Thadden: "Then & there I discovered that the modern young generation, whether they are pro-Nazis, or Communists, or "intellectuals, are all human beings with a great longing for something that will provide a background for their lives...
Weil-Bred. Romanticized in the novels of Jack London, sled dogs were immortalized after the epic dash to carry diphtheria serum to Nome in 1925. Since then, though the airplane and bulldozer have displaced the Husky as Arctic freight haulers, the Huskies have served man well. Shearer, president of a Boston furniture store, served in World War II, as did many of the other dogsled racers, with the Arctic search & rescue units of the Air Force...
Chill winds, frozen tundras, and a dollar a day wage appeal to at least 23 University students. A representative of the U.S. Weather Bureau yesterday interviewed that number of juniors, seniors, and graduate students who wish to work as assistants in Arctic weather stations this summer...
...Workers recruited in the U.S. and taken to Greenland to build the base at Thule (on the island's far northwestern rim, some 650 miles above the Arctic Circle) were paid $3,000,000 in wages before they reached the site...
...construction firms to straighten things out; the job will be cornpleted "in an efficient manner." Considering the Air Force's hurry-up order for the bases and remoteness of the sites, a pretty good job has been done. A wage premium was necessary to recruit men for the Arctic Greenland job, where the work was hazardous and hardly anyone had ever been before. A heavy rain before the blacktop surface was laid caused the roller to go through the Morocco base apron. "It's just like the man who cuts his hay in the afternoon and hopes...