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...greens and browns of Canada's infinite north-country; the black-and-crimson spit & polish of the Northwest Mounties; the kaleidoscopic carnival of the training field; the silver splash of bushers' planes plopping into lonely lakes; the ominous shine of penguin-bellied bombers groaning up from the Newfoundland shore on their weary way to England...
...Archibald Southby, apparently giddy with Lend-Lease, said: "It might have been better if the United States had augmented the defenses of those vitally important places [Far Eastern bases] rather than expend time and material in creation of the bases which we leased them in the West Indies and Newfoundland." > Laborite Richard Rapier Stokes: "I hate to think of the military center of control shifting to Washington. It gives me a nasty feeling . . . that we may find ourselves reduced to what I term occupying the position of America's Helgoland off the coast of Europe...
...night four steatopygous corvettes waddled along off the coast of Newfoundland, ostensibly bound for Britain. But at dawn they hove to off the salmon-pink igneous rockland of St. Pierre & Miquelon, last island remnants of the once-great French Empire in North America...
...short time Pan Am will continue to fly via Lisbon, two of its three weekly flights continuing from there to Foynes (4,590 miles). Later the Clippers will fly the northern route (3,067 miles) with a stop in Newfoundland. Between Foynes and England, Britain's Overseas line will operate a shuttle-a shorter and speedier haul than its present 1,100-mile wartime semicircle between Lisbon and England...
Today, as Rube Fleet works his 15-to-18-hour day, driving, berating, wheedling for speed, more speed, the saga of Consolidated craft grows & grows. It was a PBY that found the Bismarck, called up the warships for her destruction. A B-24 crossed the Atlantic from Newfoundland in the record time of seven hours, 30 minutes. This week the Air Forces' Major Alva Harvey is back in the U.S. after a routine flight around the world in a B24. From the shores of the British Isles (and probably in the Mediterranean), patrols of 24 hours and more...