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Born. To Nilla Shiles Putnam, 30; and Air Forces Lieut. David Binney Putnam, 29, onetime boy explorer-author (David Goes Voyaging, David Goes to Greenland, etc.), stepson of the late Aviatrix Amelia Earhart: their third child, first son, David Binney Jr.; in Fort Pierce, Fla. Weight...
...determining the course of wars was a major feature of the program. It was revealed that just recently, in the case of the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenan, protecting fog and low ceilling foreseen by German meteorologists had prevented aerial interference. The establishment of outposts at Spitzbergen, lecland and Greenland primarily for weather forecasts was stressed as well as the early German occupation of the vital weather post of Narvik...
...outside of the U.S., and many are on the other side of the international date line. They will eat in at least 65 different countries or islands. For many there will be no turkey, no snow, no bells (see p. 38). For others in Alaska, in Greenland, in Iceland, there may be turkey and even bells, and there certainly will be snow. It will be a Christmas unique in the Army's history, for on no other Christmas have so many men in U.S. uniforms been scattered so far over the earth...
...Grocery Stores. "On each Pacific island, in the Aleutians, Greenland, Africa, everywhere, each unit of troops must take along its engineers, its quartermaster detachment, its medical, sanitary and communications units. There are no public water supplies in the Pacific, few roads or railroads in Africa. Bridges, automobiles, service stations, grocery stores and similar facilities are few and far between...
Curvilinear Cinemactress Joan Blondell got herself a fresh hairdo, a new fur coat, headed for Greenland and Iceland to entertain the armed forces. Manhattan socialite Edith Kingdon Gould, linguist (5), ex-child-poetess, 22-year-old great-granddaughter of the late, great Robber Baron Jay Gould, joined the WAVES, went off to train at Madison...