Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been 30 years. Driving through the jack-pine country of northern Wisconsin on his calls, Doc MacKinnon reflected: it had seemed much shorter than that. In the long country-doctor days and broken nights of George Elliott MacKinnon, now 60, he had brought hundreds -thousands-of children into life. Many a Finnish logger had come to his office in little (pop. 452) Prentice, Wis. to be patched up after a knife fight. There had been fevers, croups, contagions, the flu epidemic of 1919, when Doc was out on the drifted roads for eight subzero days & nights, .with a steaming horse...
...background of this explosion were 1) Moscow, 2) oil. Ever since the Iranian Majlis (Parliament) curtly rejected Russia's claim for oil rights in northern Iran and forbade any Government to negotiate such rights till after the war (TIME, Dec. 18, 1944), Russia had been needling the Iranian Government. The Azerbaijan revolt looked like the substitution of action for frustrated diplomacy...
Nationalist soldiers, open the railway which feeds coal from the northern coalfields to resurgent Shanghai. He made his headquarters in sprawling, ugly Tientsin...
Answers varied: he was in Moscow, tanned and rested; he was dead; he had suffered a disabling heart attack during his Caucasus vacation; he did not dare risk a cold by exposing himself suddenly to northern weather; he had deliberately stayed away in order to watch his subordinates perform. One rumor even said that Stalin had gone to meet President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Goring wanted a better method of reviving Luftwaffe flyers fished out of cold northern waters. Dachau concentration camp was an ideal place for experimentation. Nazi doctors there, on Goring's orders, chilled political prisoners in every imaginable way, often until their pulse and breathing stopped. Then they tried reviving the victims...