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...Base. During the coming winter, the first under-ice base will get a thorough test. Named "Fist Clench" (officially Site 2), it is high on the icecap, 200 miles east of the Air Force base at Thule...
...Greenland. Even before the oilmen could place orders, the U.S. Defense Department asked De Long to use the same principle for a 1,000-ft. dock to help speed its Thule. Greenland airbase. Standard construction methods would have taken two years. By prefabricating, De Long cut the total time to six months. Since then, the Defense Department has ordered 17 more docks worth $16 million, rushed two to replace a wood pier that burned at Whittier, Alaska, threatening military supply lines, two more to New port News, Va., when it turned out that no docks were big enough...
...mile Ledo Road ("Pick's Pike") through Burma, later (1946) began construction of a dam network project (the Pick-Sloan plan) to tame the rambunctious Missouri River, directed (1949) "Operation Snowbound" to relieve storm-clogged Northern states, while head of Army Engineers built the Air Force base at Thule, Greenland; in Washington...
...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...