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...nearby fronts. At war's peak, we were printing some 834,000 overseas copies at 19 places for distribution to 180 countries and possessions. Among the 19: Bogotá, Sao Paulo, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Teheran and Sydney. Where transport problems were worst, as in Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, Burma and the Pacific, we sent out pocket-sized "Pony" editions. Smallest of all was the Navy V-Mail Edition (4¼ in. by 5¼ in.). At war's end, all these editions were consolidated into the present four international editions now serving 1,419,000 readers outside...
...Weather Wing), ready to leap at a moment's notice into action against an enemy invader. The signal they are waiting for is a speck on a radarscope, picked up perhaps in Newfoundland or on a ship at sea. If the Russians come over the pole or Greenland (the shortest route), interceptors from New England bases will be first in the air. If they come over the Atlantic, McGuire will "scramble" to meet them...
Early one February morning in 1943, the U.S. troop transport Dorchester was wallowing through icy seas off Greenland. Most of the 900 troops on board were asleep in their bunks. Suddenly a torpedo smashed into the Dorchester's thin flank. Frantically pounding up the ladders, the troops milled in confusion on the unfamiliar decks...
Kauffman was promoted room Minister to Ambassador a year ago and has long been a proponent of a strong union of the democracies. During the war he acted for Free Denmark in giving the United States the use of valuable air hashes and weather stations in Greenland and since then he has been an active superior of Denmark's participation in the Atlantic Pact...
...Among Eskimo tribes elsewhere, older children are occasionally breastfed. Explorer Peter Freuchen saw an Eskimo mother in Greenland nursing a full-grown...