Word: thule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock Sunday afternoon a combat-loaded Strategic Air Command B-52 Stratofortress plunked down at Baltimore's Friendship International Airport after a history-making journey. In 26 hours it had flown 13,500 miles, from Loring Air Force Base near Limestone (Maine) to Goose Bay (Labrador), to Thule (Greenland), north to the Pole, south to Anchorage (Alaska), thence to Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Abilene, Tampa, Key West, Miami, Atlanta and, finally, Baltimore...
Precisely 45 minutes later, another B-52 set down at Baltimore: in 31½ hours it had hurtled 16,000 nonstop miles (with aerial refueling) from Castle Air Force Base, Calif, to Goose Bay, Thule, the North Pole, Anchorage, Seattle, San Francisco and across the U.S. to Baltimore...
...help complete it before flying on to Korea for his fifth consecutive Christmas with the troops. Dr. Blake, traveling in the personal plane of Lieut. General Glenn O. Barcus of the Northeast Air Command, with the general himself at the controls, stopped at Labrador and Greenland en route to Thule (700 miles from the North Pole) to deliver Christmas Day sermons...
...nation in which the crime is committed can hardly exercise effective jurisdiction even if it has the apparent right. And how, if not by the U.S. military, can an armed forces civilian dependent or employee be tried for a crime committed at some such remote outpost as Thule in Greenland, where the Danish government holds title but has none of the local machinery for exercising judicial control...
Died. Ootah, eightyish, last of the four Eskimos who accompanied Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson on their history-making trek to the North Pole in 1909; of old age; near Thule, Greenland. A sturdy, 34-year-old hunter when he served with Peary, Ootah (also known as Odaq) was called "Peary's Iron Man," remarked of the journey back from the Pole: "The Devil is asleep or having trouble with his wife, or we should never have come back so easily...