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Canada. Six Air Force bases- two SAC, four ADC. Also, a Navy station at Argentia, Nfld...
...idea, got news of the fifth cable break, and checked out his plan with Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, who notified the White House. Minutes later, the order went from Burke to Norfolk, headquarters of Admiral Jerauld Wright's Atlantic Fleet. Norfolk messaged the U.S. Naval Base at Argentia, Newfoundland, which in turn radioed Lieut. Commander Ernest Korte, skipper of a converted destroyer escort, the radar picket ship U.S.S. Roy 0. Hale, outward bound on a routine month-long sea patrol. Hale immediately turned and steamed to the point where a twin-engined Navy P2V Neptune had located the Russian...
Newfoundland also is cashing in handsomely on the $200 million building program at the U.S. bases in the province. Fort Pepperrell, near St. John's, the Harmon air base on the southwest coast, and Argentia naval base, near which Churchill and Roosevelt held their Atlantic Charter meeting in 1941, are all being expanded. Much of the money is paid out directly in wages to Newfoundland workmen. Newfoundland also benefits from the free-spending U.S. troops stationed there...
...lack of reclining chairs. The plane was running out of gasoline. She had been airborne for 18 hours and 32 minutes on a flight which had been scheduled for 17 hours; a night of violent headwinds had erased all chances of her reaching her first stop at Argentia, Newfoundland...
...attractive than she had in decades. Moreover, her war-built airports have helped make Newfoundland the aerial crossroads of the North Atlantic, a new, potent bargaining point. Of the five major airports, Canada holds two (Torbay and Goose Bay), Newfoundland one (Gander) and the U.S. two (Harmon Field and Argentia) -most of them still involved in controversy over civil air rights. This has given some Newfoundlanders the idea that they might do better bargaining, not with Ottawa, but with...