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...morning, darkness still cloaked the wilderness-rimmed U.S. Army airfield at Stephenville, Newfoundland. Flying conditions, however, were excellent. There was a 5,000-foot ceiling and ten-mile visibility. A steady, eight-mile flow of chill air moved across the vast runways. American Overseas Airlines' Berlin-bound DC-4 Eire fled past on its take-off with the blended snarl of its four engines reassuringly shattering the silence. Men on duty in the control tower watched it perfunctorily as it climbed and shrank from sight on its hop to Shannon, Eire...
...shore (just over 200 miles) for them to chug out, ice down a load of cod, haddock and halibut, and get back in five to six days. If foreign trawlers continued to shove them off Quero, Canadians would have to go twice as far, to the Grand Bank off Newfoundland, for less profitable salt...
...them were busily readying great new planes, arranging for bases, planning schedules. But this week the U.S. had still to get them the necessary permission from many of the countries over which they would have to fly. Still posted against regular peacetime airline traffic were such key areas as Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, China, India, Russia...
...idea, the poison would be deadly: her airlines are still fledglings. While U.S. aviation looked on apprehensively, the State Department was trying to ease the tension. Hand-picked missionaries have left or are about to leave to do some top level, pre-treaty softening-up in China, India, Brazil (Newfoundland, New Zealand, and Australia have all but signed). Off to India-with the rank of minister-will go able George Brownell, ex-brigadier general and wartime assistant to the Assistant Secretary of War for Air. Off to Brazil last week went James M. Landis, ex-Harvard law dean now chairman...
...voting list was the census. That excluded Labrador's several hundred white stationers who go down north from Newfoundland every summer to live in frame and moss tilts and fish inshore, also the 1,200 summer floaters who fish from vessels offshore. Only the 4,000 year-around white livyers (meaning live here) and the 1,500 Eskimos, half-breeds, Nascopie and Montagnais Indians could vote...