Word: beringer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A B-25 bomber, droning through the Arctic sky one day last week, spotted a Japanese freighter where no Jap freighter ought to be. Said the Navy's laconic communiqué: "The ship was left burning and was later seen to sink." The Navy offered no conjecture as to...
He arrived in Nome on Aug. 25, found a two-room office in the Wallace Hotel's new frame building on Front Street at $1,380 a year. The rooms were "all painted up white and very classy." The windows looked out on the Bering Sea. Shortly the sea...
The possibilities of their attacking Siberia grew dimmer as winter crept like a paralysis over the far North. In their present state of harassment they were no great threat to the North American coastline. They had failed to block communications to Asia: cargo planes bypassed them, flew across the Bering...
At the line's weakest link, the Bering Strait water jump, Mr. Cutcheon believes dense mine fields and constant, massive air patrols would give ample protection.
In publishing Mr. Cutcheon's letter, Barron's editors made the obvious comment that it was an "unusually interesting" idea, but threw cold water on it because of the time element: the war might be over before the line was finished. Mr. Cutcheon, however, had another idea-extending...