Word: iceland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...establishment at Churchill on the west shore of Hudson Bay,* the $7,000,000 base at Southampton Island's Coral Harbor (socalled because of the tropical fossils found there). But the great air ferry route was hardly used: the route via Labrador and Iceland proved more feasible. The first job of the ten Army nurses stationed at the Churchill base was to deliver an Indian baby who was promptly nicknamed "G.I. Joe." The soldiers had time to learn how to harpoon whales from canoes. Sixteen married Canadian girls...
...single flight. Proudly the A.A.F. pointed to its safety record: only three bombers had been lost; not one life had been lost in the A.T.C.'s transporting of 67,200 troops. Naval craft of three nations (U.S., Britain and Brazil) patrolled the three routes (via Iceland and Newfoundland; via the Azores; via Natal, Brazil, and the Caribbean). They were a chain of beacons, supplying weather data to the homing aircraft. Ashore, long range planes stood by for rescue missions...
...Francisco conference, Russian diplomacy has been more honest than that of the other big nations, Professor Sorokin claimed. The Soviet Union did not, he pointed out, indulge in the hypocrisy of the equality of all the United Nations, "little Iceland included...
...Aries left Iceland for her first flight on May 16. That afternoon she was over the geographical North Pole. After circling for an hour and a half, completing a trip around the world in 76 seconds by tightly banking around the Pole, the eleven-man crew dropped a beer bottle and a Union Jack...
...length of this one. Today the MARCH OF TIME produces La Marcha del Tiempo in Spanish and Portuguese for Latin America and La M ar che dti Temps in French for Belgium, France and the French Empire. It plays regularly in Canada, Britain, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, India (300 theaters) and Egypt (with subtitles in native languages). And here at home it is seen every month by an audience...