Word: iceland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington's grey, massive St. Patrick's Church last week, three prelates laid their hands on the brown-thatched head of kneeling Johannes Gunnarsson, consecrated him Vicar Apostolic of Iceland, now burgeoning with U. S. troops. By their act they gave Ultima Thule its first native Roman Catholic Bishop in 393 years. Last one was Jon Arason. He and his two sons lost their heads in 1550 opposing Denmark's King Christian III and his edict that the island adopt the motherland's Lutheran faith...
...result of all this redesigning is a turbine which not only uses less fuel but is more rugged and simpler to operate than the old type, breaks down less often, has stood up superbly under the severest combat conditions from Iceland to the tropics. First installed experimentally in the Mahan class of destroyers, started in 1933, the new turbine is now standard equipment in most of the modern U.S. fleet...
...flesh (imported from Hungary) and "Norrlands biff" (socalled "beef of the north," which is about 75% wood pulp). Cigarets are vague combinations of Turkish tobacco and Swedish hay. The traditional smörgasbord has virtually disappeared because bread is the most severely rationed of all foods except meat. Prized Iceland and Norwegian fat herring are no longer available, good cheese is scarce. The greatest loss is that of coffee. Swedes like it hot, strong and often, were the world's greatest per-capita consumers before the war. They now have 300 ersatz types...
...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...
...Near Iceland, the big B-24 Liberator bomber bored through dark and dirty weather. A British base had radioed a warning: weather bad. From the bomber came the laconic reply: "Continuing...