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...During World War I, soldier movies were provided by the War Department and welfare agencies. When the AMPS was founded in 1921 it had only "a woefully small sum of money ... a few buildings which were theaters in name only." Today it operates in all 48 states plus Alaska, Newfoundland, Bermuda, Trinidad, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Panama. Army theaters in the U.S. are now built in three sizes, seating 364, 602, 1038, and have an annual attendance of 225,000,000. They rent standard-size films from the producers at an estimated annual cost of over...
...deliveries were made and by the hundreds. In 1940 the first U.S. aircraft were flown to Canada's border, solemnly wheeled across (to keep neutrality technically inviolate though the world was burning). R.A.F. Ferry Command pilots then took over, flew the planes, with a brief stop in Newfoundland, across to England. Thus Britain was first to shuttle planes, men and freight across the North Atlantic...
...hull was just off the ways of a little Newfoundland town. Half an hour after she slipped into the smooth bay she was outward bound, hitched to a tugboat, for a short haul to her outfitting port. The four men aboard her had food for two days, a small stove, a teakettle, an ax, lamp, nails and some rope...
...crossbred weighing at least 50 lb., between one and five years old, at least 20 inches tall at the shoulder, physically and temperamentally sound. Among the dogs already enlisted are Violinist Jascha Heifetz' great Dane, Information Pleaser Franklin P. Adams' collie, Author Hendrik Van Loon's Newfoundland...
...successes in Russia and North Africa appeared to have "set the stage" for an early meeting between President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill or Anthony Eden. Roosevelt and Churchill have conferred in person three times during World War II: on Aug. 14, 1941, aboard the U.S.S. Augusta in Argentia Bay, Newfoundland, they signed the Atlantic Charter; in the latter part of December 1941, at the White House, they organized the U.S.-G.B. War Council; in June 1942 they planned the North African campaign...