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Last year only six freighters visited Churchill. The five-year average of grain exported is a mere 3,000,000 bu. The town, itself, once planned to become a metropolis, remains a huddle of shacks on the naked shingle beside the Bay. The Hudson Bay Railroad runs but one train...
"It is not the size or character of these structures which gives this project its distinctive character. It is outstanding as a modern traffic artery through a great metropolis, planned to combine speed and safety as well as a form of recreation to the traveling public to an extent not...
Concentration in highest British circles on the menace of an unexpected air attack, for example from the Nazis' new bombing base only 320 miles from Buckingham Palace (see map), brought orders from His Majesty's Government last week that the peacetime organization of the Royal Air Force must...
When the royal yacht Dannebrog put in at Reykjavik, Iceland's metropolis, it flew not the white-crossed red flag of Denmark but Iceland's own royal flag of red, white & blue. This time King Christian had made a Slesvig - Holsten -Sonderborg -Glikksborg family party of it, bringing...
From Chicago the Dixieland went to Manhattan where earnings reached $1,500 per week, to London where that fee was more than doubled. At first, many found the Dixieland's music disconcerting. The players wore freak hats, jigged all over the platform, had a stuffed monkey set up in...