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September is the hurricane season, and each season produces an average of three. Usually, after traveling northwest toward Florida, hurricanes hit a high-pressure coastal front and veer seaward toward a low-pressure area south of Greenland. But last week's storm, like that in 1938, was funneled inland by the coincidence of a low-pressure front near the Great Lakes. The fiercest hurricane in U.S. history was the 1900 Galveston (Tex.) storm, which killed 6,000. The 1938 storm, still considered the most destructive on record, caused damage estimated...
...imagination skimming about the North Atlantic, Bob Reynolds had another brain wave: "And if possible, we should make some agreement of a friendly nature to get a portion of ... Greenland and Iceland...
Though transportation is difficult, a few copies get through to Moscow- and there are two civilian subscribers in Greenland, two others in Bechuanaland. A copy of every issue travels the length of the Atlantic to a physician in the bleak Falklands, and another goes to a bishop whose diocese is the dank jungles of Belize. There is one TIME subscriber on St. Helena who sometimes gets a whole year's copies at once-and one subscriber each in the Canary, Fanning and Society Islands...
...Mosquito Network consists of just five* of AFRS's 100 stations and 200 public-address systems now established, from Greenland to China. But its tiny 50-watt voices are very welcome in a lonely area where short-and medium-wave reception is uncertain...
...York via Newfoundland or Labrador, Greenland, Iceland to Oslo-Stocknolm-Helsinki-Leningrad-Moscow-Teheran-Basra...