Word: newfoundland
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...them inadequate). One hope of betterment lay in the fact that "ground-controlled approach," in which radar is used to guide a pilot on to a field he cannot see, was being installed at New York, Chicago and Washington airports. Pan American Airways had put it in at Gander, Newfoundland (after a Belgian airliner crashed there, killing 27). If used at all large airports, G.C.A. might cut airline fatalities in half...
...above the average 17th Century Jack Tar (e.g., he spoke four languages fluently). Like most of his contemporaries, he wrote phonetically-"yeuneuerseti" for university, "yeumer" (humor), "bin" (been), "westinges" (West Indies). Born in Kent, in 1633, he became coxswain and gunner aboard merchantmen whose loads ranged from Newfoundland cod to indigo, currants and muscadine wine. Between voyages: "[I] took large liberty in drinking and sporting as the manner of seamen generally...
Amid the hubbub, Ottawa maintained a discreet silence. But all knew that Canada would like to take Newfoundland and Labrador into the family. Poor cousin Newfoundland, with its national debt trimmed to $74,000,000 and with $28,669,000 in the bank, looked more attractive than she had in decades. Moreover, her war-built airports have helped make Newfoundland the aerial crossroads of the North Atlantic, a new, potent bargaining point. Of the five major airports, Canada holds two (Torbay and Goose Bay), Newfoundland one (Gander) and the U.S. two (Harmon Field and Argentia) -most of them still involved...
Convention delegate Albert Butt last week rose and asked if they had the power to recommend that Newfoundland join the U.S. Replied the convention's British-appointed constitutional expert, Oxford don K. C. Wheare: "Yes . . . but [you] will have to get the consent of the U.S. Government and of course . . . the consent of the United Kingdom...
...Newfoundland mountain range, rhymes with can he hopscotch...