Word: thule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vast wastes above the Arctic Circle, where much of the world's weather is generated, Canada has only two weather stations equipped for long-range forecasting and the U.S. has only three (at Thule in Greenland, at Barrow and Kotzebue, in Alaska). To achieve a closer study and better forecasting, Canada and the U.S. joined last week in a plan for more observation posts...
Died. Henrietta Richardson Robertson (pen name: Henry Handel Richardson), seventyish, Australian novelist (Ultima Thule) who lived in England but turned for subject matter to her native country; in Hastings, Sussex. A striver for Flaubertian impersonality, she achieved it so well that few readers guessed the author...
Colonel Hubbard's plan calls for two main bases, one at Winter Harbor on Melville Island, the other at Thule in Greenland. Each would have a staff of about 50 men, with a powerful radio station and an airfield. Each main base would serve as headquarters for four satellite stations as much as 500 miles away, the maximum practical distance for supply planes. One station is planned for Peary Land, the farthest-north land on earth. Arctops may even put stations on the floating arctic ice, many miles from land...
...Washington's grey, massive St. Patrick's Church last week, three prelates laid their hands on the brown-thatched head of kneeling Johannes Gunnarsson, consecrated him Vicar Apostolic of Iceland, now burgeoning with U. S. troops. By their act they gave Ultima Thule its first native Roman Catholic Bishop in 393 years. Last one was Jon Arason. He and his two sons lost their heads in 1550 opposing Denmark's King Christian III and his edict that the island adopt the motherland's Lutheran faith...
...budget's 1,172 pages, its 5 lb. 1 oz. of weight, there was no real relief for the oppressed, bursting mind of the U.S. taxpayer, now strained many times beyond what would have been ultima Thule for the Founding Fathers. But there were a few grim economies, not figured on by Franklin Roosevelt and the Budget Bureau: the U.S. may very soon be relieved of the present expenditure of $161,425 for expenses of the High Commissioner to the Philippines. And there will be no immediate need of the $39,450 appropriated for the care of lepers...