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...Alaskan airmen did not put up much of a fight. After a tricky deployment of Pentagon charts of organization, the ice men became naturalized employees of the Northeast Air Command (headquarters: Pepperrell Air Force Base, Newfoundland). If Fletcher's Island continues to creep far enough eastward, it will eventually enter the territory of some Soviet air command. Then the Air Force guardian of lines of demarcation will have a trickier problem...
...postwar air age, Gander Airport in northeastern Newfoundland has replaced the seaport of Halifax as Canada's front door. More than 300,000 transatlantic air travelers landed there in 1952; many get their first and only impression of Canada at the field. Gander's 8,600-ft. main runway, its instrument-landing equipment, and the high-intensity runway lights now being installed make it technically one of the world's most up-to-date airports. But in the creature comforts by which most tourists form their opinions of a port of call, Gander Airport is as outmoded...
...brawling, barnlike waiting room in a bedlam of children's cries and squawking announcements by 20-odd airlines. Grand Falls (pop. 16,059), the nearest town of any size, is three hours away by slow train. Three-day-old newspapers, and long, morose drinks of potent Newfoundland "screech" (rum) at the crowded bar* are the chief available diversions from the monotony of staring at the cheerless landscape...
...Scandinavian's route-blazing flight ended at Copenhagen, after a flying time of 23 hrs. 34 min. (plus stopovers of 4 hrs. 43 min.) from Los Angeles. Time in the air was 3½ hours less than the present commercial flight time by way of New York and Newfoundland...
Last week the U.S.A.F.'s Northeast Air Command opened a procurement office in St. John's Water Street. It had a list of Newfoundland firms ready to provide anything from Alka Seltzer to zwieback. In its first week the new office placed $17,340 worth of orders and signed a contract for a month's ration of bread. Newfoundland merchants beamed. The Yanks were bringing boom times, and the end was nowhere in sight...