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...this week the Air Transport Command's North Atlantic division, in ceremonies at bases from Maine to Iceland, will mark the opening of its second winter of regularly scheduled operations. A flight to Europe, winter or summer, is now as routine an operation as a hop from New York to San Francisco...
...Fridgeir Olasen of Reykjavik, Iceland, a Harvard graduate student for the past year, received his doctorate in Public Health posthumously. He was returning to his home in Iceland, a passenger on the 1542-ton Godafoss, when his boat was sunk by a German U-boat with a loss of 24 lives...
...Olasen earned his M.D. from the University of Iceland in 1938 and an M.P.H. from Vanderbilt University in 1943. Before he had been reported lost at sea on November 17, Dr. Olasen had completed his requirements for the Harvard degree. Working in the special field of Nutrition, he wrote a thesis entitled, "Vitamin A and Cancer...
...British plane doggedly making the rounds of patrol off Iceland in 1941 sighted an enemy submarine. The plane made a run, dropped depth charges, circled to watch results. Suddenly the submarine surfaced and to the flyer's surprise quickly ran up a white flag (later found to be the commander's shirt). The U-570 was boarded by the British, found virtually undamaged...
Globe-trotting Eric Johnston, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said in a press conference: "From Iceland to South America and from Mexico to Russia the crying need around the world seems to be money...