Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mercury stood at two below zero one morning last week at Pine Camp, the U.S. Army's 107,000-acre training area in northern New York. Three feet of snow blanketed the terrain, dotted with scrub pines. At H-hour, 11:30 a.m., 15 potbellied Fairchild Packets roared overhead, a scant 800 feet over the snow...
...rich fields of northern Argentina, sugar cane grows as high as an elephant's eye, and avocados are as big as coconuts. But the great world port of Buenos Aires is 1,000 miles to the south, and the towering Andes have always blocked the shortcut route west through Chile to the Pacific. For three-quarters of a century, the people of the region have loudly demanded a trans-Andean railway; for more than a quarter of a century they have been building it. Last week they had it. A coca-chewing Indian had slung a sledge, a last...
...train had made the estimated 30-hour trip from Salta to Antofagasta. That would wait until next week, when, on the 27th anniversary of its first construction, the new Trans-Andean railway would be officially inaugurated. At the ceremony, no one would cheer louder than the desert miners of northern Chile, who want to swap their copper and nitrates for Argentina's grain, vegetables and beef...
Even the weather was bad. Up to last week it was so cold that one hotel tried to keep its guests' minds off the chilliness by broadcasting northern temperatures over a loudspeaker every half hour. Miami's schools closed down for two days. Then the mercury finally climbed into the high...
Meeting Saturday and yesterday at Boston University, the northern and southern New England regions of N.S.A. also passed resolutions asking colleges and students to lobby in support of pending student ship legislation for summer trips abroad. The conference also went on record against the Barnes and Wenzler bills...