Word: regional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eldorado Mining and Refining Co. Ltd.'s rich pitchblende field in the Northwest Territories' Great Bear Lake region. Eldorado's lode, which has put Canada in the forefront of uranium producers, was expropriated by the government in January 1944. At the same time it clapped a total security blackout on all atomic activities...
When the northbound traveler invades the six million square miles of the Arctic Circle, he soon leaves the great timberlands behind and enters a region where the last, sparse outposts of birch, spruce and cottonwood gradually fade into the boundless levels of the tundra. Here is the world which "knows but two seasons: winter and August"; here great rivers of North America and Asia drain away and congeal into the titanic ice-blocks of the Arctic Ocean; here (and not at the North Pole) the thermometer has touched its recorded lowest (93° below zero) and the milk of Siberia...
This strange region and its gradual discovery are the subject of To the Arctic!, which Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson describes as "the best history of northern exploration so far written." New Jersey-born Jeannette Mirsky who, at 44, has never cried "Mush!" to a dog or put foot to floe, first published her book in 1934. But it was dropped by her publishers after the first printing, because the late...
Perpetual Fogs. Macdonald has a few pages of fun with "Wallese," the language spoken in "Wallaceland . . . the mental habitat of Henry Wallace plus a few hundred thousand regular readers of the New Republic, the Nation and PM. It is a region of perpetual fogs, caused by the warm winds of the liberal Gulf Stream coming in contact with the Soviet glacier." Wallace is loaded with "ritualistic adjectives" like "forward-looking," "freedom-loving," "clear-thinking." Such lingo, delivered with the "expansiveness of a Messiah," is just what it takes to make his followers accept Wallace "on his own valuation...
Leaders of the snowballing anti-MacArthur movement at Boston University and M.I.T. will meet with Kornfeld this afternoon to coordinate VAM activity in the greater Boston region...