Word: arctics
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...Feet sweat in any weather. Best way to keep them warm is an Arctic sock one-half inch thick, which requires a shoe two sizes larger than usual. If feet get frozen, they should not be rubbed with snow, since frozen tissues are likely to crack and break. Best method of thawing frozen flesh is to warm it gradually without bending or chafing...
...British ship, one of several anchored brazenly last week off the German-held Lofoten Islands on Norway's jagged northwestern coast. Bearers of the greeting were Britain's tough Commandos, bent on destruction of radio equipment guiding German shipping along the Axis sea route to the Arctic fighting front in Russia...
Zigzag Line. In all their efforts the Russians scored heavily in behalf of a major need: several important rail centers were again in or nearly in Russian hands. The threat against the highly strategic rail link between Murmansk on the Arctic coast and Leningrad was allayed. Control of the Volkhov River would mean possession of four-fifths of the Moscow-Leningrad railroad. Already recaptured was the southbound Moscow-Tula-Orel railroad. If the Germans could be driven out of the Donets Basin and Crimea, Russia could again link up communications important to her war effort-the zigzag lines of rails...
Tanks may soon be air-conditioned, if they are intended for desert or arctic warfare...
...favorite subjects for school Christmas plays is a potpourri entitled "Christmas in Many Lands" and tracing Santa's journey from the Arctic wastes to the fireside of every nationality, dropping gifts indiscriminately in Belgian sabots, Persian slippers, and even Japanese clogs. The moral has something to do with the brotherhood of man, and everybody ends up singing carols...