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...Small Troubles. Now A.A.C.S. stations cover the world, range in personnel from four to 150, in temperature from the sticky wet heat of the Solomons to the numbing cold of Greenland. One Greenland station recorded a wind velocity of 137 m.p.h. before the weather rig blew away...
...Alaska and Greenland this winter, U.S. soldiers present a new silhouette, a new color: Olive Drab 7 (very dark). Reason: G.I.s in northern posts are testing the Army's latest field uniform...
...goes by boat and plane to English-reading people in some 70 free countries; there is one reader on St. Helena who sometimes gets a whole year's copies at once; and one each in the Canary, Falkland, Fanning and Society Islands. There are two civilian subscribers in Greenland, two in Bechuanaland, three in the Soviet Union...
...Atlantic, we must acquire by treaty or by occupation such islands and such territories as we deem necessary to our safety. . . . We must go far afield. Dakar and Casablanca . . . must be ours in permanence. . . . We must have our own permanent naval and air bases in Iceland and Greenland. We must maintain, continue, perfect and enlarge our base on Bermuda. . . . We must make equitable arrangement if we can for the possession of the islands of the Caribbean...
...already vein the world. Its freighter pilots fly along the Alaska highway, past Whitehorse to Fairbanks; its delivery flyers whip fighters and bombers close to Bering Strait to be turned over to Russia for the eastern front. Freighters, and bombers on the way to combat, cross central Canada to Greenland, Iceland, Britain. They blanket the Caribbean and sweep across Mexico. They fly down both sides of South America...