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...battalion of Marines is afloat in the Mediterranean, ready for any fire alarm. A battalion of Marines has just completed Arctic exercises in Labrador-for no one knows where Marines might go next. Besides the First Division in Korea, the corps has two trained divisions, each with its air arm, waiting stateside for trouble-the Second at Camp Lejeune, N.C., the Third at Camp Pendleton (see color pages), Calif. Boot camps at Parris Island, S.C. and San Diego are hup-reeping steadily away at rebuilding civilian youths to the sunburned, stiff-backed Marine mold, and pumping them into the service...
Smallwood's assignment would stagger any ordinary salesman. The bleak island of Newfoundland and the mainland territory of Labrador, which has been part of Newfoundland for nearly 200 years, are among Canada's most forbidding wildernesses. Much of the land is barren and rocky, dotted with lakes and great bogs. In its 154,734 sq. mi., an area almost as big as California, only three towns have more than 5,000 people. There is still no cross-island highway, only a narrow-gauge railroad that arcs across the island but does not touch one hamlet in ten. Newfoundlanders...
...five legs of the flight, the Air Force rescue planes were guarded by other search-and-rescue planes that also flew weather reconnaissance. Extra gas tanks were crammed in the space for ten passengers. The lumbering H-19s found the going roughest between Labrador and Greenland. After three misses, the helicopters dropped to within 35 feet of the icy waves and poked through 100-yard visibility to a tiny island in a Greenland fiord...
...student of anthropology, Martin was engaged in a study of the Labrador Indians. He held the Wenner-Gren pre-doctoral fellowship awarded annually to ten American anthropologists of outstanding promise...
...bulk of these tolls will come from American steel companies, shipping iron ore from Labrador to inland American mills. Since the Mesabi iron deposits are running out while the United States' need for steel climbs, the Labrador deposits are becoming more important. The railroad and port lobbies, of course, believe that steel producers--if they need Labrador ore--shall pay for shipping it, rather than charge this cost up to the American tax-payer...