Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tiny, ugly collection of frame bunkhouses and mills squats forlornly on the shore of remote Great Bear Lake, in Canada's Northwest Territories. It is 1,400 miles north of the nearest railhead (at Waterways, Alberta), and 26 miles south of the Arctic Circle, in a part of the continent bleak with long, cold winter nights. The village has no official name, but it is sometimes called Radium City. Last week it suddenly found itself part of an all but incredible world drama, for under its fir-bearded slopes lies the stuff of which atomic bombs are made...
Gilbert La Bine knew that cobalt stains on rocks are a pretty good indication of hidden, precious minerals. In 1930, remembering that he had read or heard somewhere that there were cobalt stains on the east shore of Great Bear Lake, he set out to see. He made part of the trip by dog sled, arrived at Great Bear Lake where the thermometer registered 70° below zero...
...younger men, who might otherwise have some thought of staying in, are convinced that the Reserves will get the undesirable assignments after the war. They see themselves holding down the Kwajaleins and Pelelius while the Regular Navy sails the ships and gets the good shore assignments...
...others like them had gone into northern Canada in mid-summer 1942 to build and maintain air bases on the "Northeast Staging Route to Europe." They had manned the $1,700,000 runways, barracks and hospital at The Pas, the $9,300,000 establishment at Churchill on the west shore of Hudson Bay,* the $7,000,000 base at Southampton Island's Coral Harbor (socalled because of the tropical fossils found there). But the great air ferry route was hardly used: the route via Labrador and Iceland proved more feasible. The first job of the ten Army nurses stationed...
Charles A. Lindbergh, who likes to live alone and finds living on an island the best way, bought land on four islands off the Connecticut shore, near Darien. Conn. Former Lindbergh island homes: one off Brittany's coast, another off Massachusetts (Martha's Vineyard). Included: 36-acres of oyster-beds...