Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York last week, the UNO Security Council did not know whether Russian troops were moving into or out of Iran. TIME Correspondent Harry Zinder flew over northern Iran, cabled...
With sirens screaming and bunting gay in the rigging, a dozen stout-planked ships had slipped through the Narrows of St. John's Harbor and out of sheltered northern ports. If they came back in four to eight weeks with prime pelts stowed fore & aft, every swiler would get around $200 apiece for his voyage. If they came back clean, both they and the merchants who backed them would get nothing. As always, the hunt was a gamble...
...friendly" government in Teheran, for instance, would not appeal to UNO. At week's end the Russians were reported asking for a token of his cooperation in the form of oil concessions in northern Iran; if Gavam gave in, Moscow might decide that the Red Army's presence was unnecessary. Then Britain and the U.S. would have to decide whether to bring before UNO a charge that Russia had coerced Iran into "friendship." If Iran was a sample, disputes before UNO were likely to partake of the bewildering complexity of the British divorce courts rather than the classic...
...William F. Petersen, professor of pathology at Illinois University and coauthor of The Patient and the Weather, offered a medical reason for spring fever: "In northern regions, the low ebb of vitality is reached in March and April. Blood pressure is low, blood vessels are tired. Winter has left . . . the body's store of blood proteins, vitamins and the rare minerals...
...Newfoundlanders quickly filed applications for places with the "Company of Adventurers" that since 1670 has been "trading into Hudson's Bay." Accepted applicants will follow the sort of life already begun for young Tinling, who is destined for a post on Baffin Island, possibly Arctic Bay at the northern...