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...Gallery started the war as commander of the fleet air base at Reykjavik, Iceland. His relationship with the U.S. Army Air Force was sometimes-less than cordial. One day when the Air Force reported 13 German JU-88s on the radar screen and the pips turned out to be twelve ducks, Gallery gleefully asked for full technical details "of this revolutionary development in bombardment aircraft." He also asked what had become of the 13th. Says Gallery: "The colonel made a very silly, unmilitary, and totally impracticable suggestion as to what I could do with that missing duck if I found...
Overstuffed Iceland. Gallery confides that Iceland wasn't nearly so cold as everybody imagined, but at the time he had no inclination to dispel any illusions. Only the deepest snowdrifts were photographed. That softened the supply officers back in Washington, who, at the whisper of the word "Iceland," scrupulously filled requisitions for pianos, bowling alleys and overstuffed sofas...
...Eagle": a pet Norse revenge, in which a man's belly is slit from side to side, and his lungs hauled out through the opening. Otherwise, it is the story of a Danish slave boy, Ogier, who wins his freedom and roves with the Viking freebooters from Iceland to Italy. In the end, he marries a princess and sails with her to discover a land that Ogier called Avalon, but that sounds very much like America...
...decreases [in TB] and the lowest mortality rates in the world have occurred in places where BCG has not been used," said Dr. Myers. In Denmark, where BCG has been extensively, used, the death rate was cut in 30 years from 174 to 30 per 100,000, but in Iceland, with similar people and conditions, it has been cut in 20 years from 203 to 26 without BCG. In Rio de Janeiro, the death rate has dropped among unvaccinated adults but increased among BCG-vaccinated infants...
...forces on nearby fronts. At war's peak, we were printing some 834,000 overseas copies at 19 places for distribution to 180 countries and possessions. Among the 19: Bogotá, Sao Paulo, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Teheran and Sydney. Where transport problems were worst, as in Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, Burma and the Pacific, we sent out pocket-sized "Pony" editions. Smallest of all was the Navy V-Mail Edition (4¼ in. by 5¼ in.). At war's end, all these editions were consolidated into the present four international editions now serving...