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Meanwhile, U.S. officials were going ahead unofficially with hopeful, picturesque plans. In charge of the project (nicknamed "Arctops") was Lieut. Colonel Charles J. Hubbard, a leading authority on arctic living and flying conditions...
...Colonel Hubbard's plan calls for two main bases, one at Winter Harbor on Melville Island, the other at Thule in Greenland. Each would have a staff of about 50 men, with a powerful radio station and an airfield. Each main base would serve as headquarters for four satellite stations as much as 500 miles away, the maximum practical distance for supply planes. One station is planned for Peary Land, the farthest-north land on earth. Arctops may even put stations on the floating arctic ice, many miles from land...
...Emergency Council says the issue is settled, but even Smith anticipates new battles. "The old board will need plenty of money, though, to publish a Spec privately," says Smith; "Mr. Hubbard (Benjamin Hubbard, head of KCAC) will okay our printing bills and he won't okay anyone else...
...Poor Man's Garbo," who had once been forbidden by New York University to lecture on farming, told Stars & Stripes that the U.S.O. not only wanted none of her wiggle-waggling for troops overseas, but declined her strictly subdued offer to wrap herself up in a Mother Hubbard and give poetry recitations...
...Mother Hubbard. OPA magnanimously dropped rationing of about 6,000 new 1942 cars still in the nation's stock pile, scarcely enough to meet one day's prewar demand. Many dealers, to avoid argument, simply went right on selling cars only to holders of top priorities. OPA also announced that, when the new cars roll off production lines, they will be rationed at first to the same eight classes of essential drivers who previously got stockpile cars...