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During World War II, the U.S. rated its bases in Newfoundland as the strongest outpost in North America's Atlantic defense. Nearly $400 million was pumped into Newfoundland during the war years to build air and naval installations on the rugged island. In peacetime an average of $30 million a year continued to flow from Washington to keep the bases in first-rate shape and, incidentally, provide Newfoundland with the equivalent of an important industry...
...tightening of nerves. In response to radio and telephone alarms in Indianapolis, Ind., policemen took to their squad cars in search of a black panther reputedly terrorizing their city with mournful rapacious howls. The search was called off only when the menace was identified as a mooning but amiable Newfoundland...
Tourists eat well in Newfoundland. The main fare is steak, lamb, salmon or lobster, but there are also such piquant island specialties as seal-flipper pie, smoked caplin (a smeltlike fish), fried cod tongues, and gamy saltwater bird. For dessert, there are blueberries, tart partridge berries, and amber-hued bakeapple berries, topped with thick cream. Strictly for strong stomachs is the Sunday morning breakfast of fish and brewis (boiled hardtack) with pork cracklings...
Caplin & Squid. The newly formed Sight-Seeing Tours Co. runs trips to Newfoundland's characteristic fishing villages -clusters of houses and sheds clinging to sheer cliffs. Harvey & Co. Ltd. has a tour that takes in coves where, in summer, shoals of the glistening caplin strike, and where dorymen with multi-hooked jiggers catch squid for bait for the Grand Banks fishing fleet. At tour's end, 40 miles from St. John's, is trim little Cupids, the beauty spot picked by John Guy in 1610 for the first permanent colony...
Hotels & Highways. Newfoundland has a long way to go before it can accommodate large numbers of tourists at reasonable rates. It needs to build more roads and to finish and pave a cross-country highway. It needs a car-ferry on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and many more modern hotels, inns and cabins...