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...hellish scheme is penetrated by a humble tide-gauge watcher, who alerts U.S. President Place. Fortunately, Place knows a little more geology than Supreme Commissar Yang. Quickly he sends planes to atom-blast Greenland's icecap. Relieved of its ice burden, Greenland rises. (It probably would, too, in a few million years.) Author Heard's fine, cheerful finish: by migrating to the cool, temperate Greenland plateau, Americans, and other men of good will, survive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Oasis | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

Since third grade geography I've thought the world's largest island was Australia. TIME [Jan. 27] says it's Greenland. Who is wrong, my third grade teacher or TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 17, 1947 | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...From the fourth grade up, Australia is generally regarded as the world's smallest continent, Greenland the largest island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 17, 1947 | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...Greenland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 17, 1947 | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

Although I have been for six years a steady reader and admirer of TIME, I was shocked to read in the last issue [Jan. 27] that "Washington military men thought this might be as good a time as any to buy Greenland, if they could" and I was just as disappointed in your obvious approval of the idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 17, 1947 | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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