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...this month over 30 heavily laden planes rumbled off rough, badly lighted fields in Labrador, winged across 800 miles of stormy water to secret airfields in Greenland. All records later flopped when 60 round trips were made in three days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Magic Carpet | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

Renner's Americas have no colonies, nor are there any foreign possessions in the Western Hemisphere (Canada and Greenland are independent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Renner's Balloon | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...talker. At West Point's graduation exercises he departed from pleasantries and the usual sermon on the honor of the Cadet Corps to hammer a few global-war tacks. Said he: "Today we find American soldiers throughout the Pacific, in Burma, China and India. They have wintered in Greenland and Iceland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, STRATEGY: Second Front, 1942 Version | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...largest: Greenland, New Guinea, Borneo, Madagascar, Baffin, Sumatra, Honshu, Great Britain, Celebes, South New Zealand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: INDIAN OCEAN: Key to a Salient | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

Died. Thorvald Stauning, 68, towering, red-bearded Prime Minister of Denmark; in Copenhagen. Flower-loving, neighbor-loving, he was a sentimental plumper of "Greenland for the Eskimos." wrote a best-selling book titled My Trip to Greenland, believed, till too late, in the neighborliness of Denmark's neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 11, 1942 | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

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