Word: argentia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Look, son Elliott took readers on a tour of the U.S.S. Augusta, at anchor in Argentia Bay, where F.D.R. and Churchill met to frame the Atlantic Charter. Excerpt: "Churchill's neck reddened, he crouched forward. 'Mr. President, England does not propose for a moment to lose its favored position among the dominions...
...that military successes in Russia and North Africa appeared to have "set the stage" for an early meeting between President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill or Anthony Eden. Roosevelt and Churchill have conferred in person three times during World War II: on Aug. 14, 1941, aboard the U.S.S. Augusta in Argentia Bay, Newfoundland, they signed the Atlantic Charter; in the latter part of December 1941, at the White House, they organized the U.S.-G.B. War Council; in June 1942 they planned the North African campaign...