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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...metal Skysedan will have a top speed of more than 160 m.p.h., a cruising speed of 140. Its 165-horsepower Continental engine will carry it 620 miles on 40 gallons of gas. Special features: a "turret-top" cabin roof for better visibility, and windshield wipers, first ever installed on a light plane...
Tundra Theater. The new plan, prepared by the U.S.-Canadian Permanent Joint Defense Board, called for the same close cooperation in peace for the defense of northern North America as had existed during the war. The two countries would maintain defense bases and weather stations on the roof of the continent; they would devise and make suitable equipment; their forces would be coordinated, trained (see below) and armed with the same arctic weapons. If the tundras ever faced invasion, U.S. and Canadian troops would man the arctic defenses together...
...Operation Musk-Ox," the Canadian Army's strategic tour around the roof of the world, last week came to an inglorious end. It was licked by something few had foreseen-dust. Up till then, the 45 men in the expedition had endured unbelievably tough conditions in their 3,000-mile trek. Frequently the mercury dropped way out of sight (coldest day: 52° below zero). The ten snowmobiles floundered through miles of man-swallowing swamps; crossed ice-choked rivers in spring flood, like the Fort Nelson, on rafts; gingerly pushed their way across great chasms on improvised timber bridges...
Beside a pyramidal concrete blockhouse with 10-ft. walls and a roof 35 ft. thick stood a German V-2 rocket, sleek, 46 ft. tall, bright yellow and black, with a German pin-up girl painted on its side. Its four tail-fins rested on an adjustable platform, and a tall crane held it steady...
Silent Tom got that way partly from his early wanderings as a sheepherder, cowhand, rodeo blacksmith, and trainer of quarter horses. For nearly 25 years he was a "gyp" horse trainer on a western leaky-roof circuit. He was in his 503 before he landed his first big-time training job, and today is one of the crack trainers at pointing a horse for a specific race. His first masterstroke: claiming a $7,500 plater and developing him into mighty Seabiscuit...