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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...
...have a personal theory that might answer the problem of perpetual motion? Do you think the Einstein theory is cuckoo? Or do you have an idea that will revolutionize anything? Thus last February Los Angeles station KNX announced the advent of What's On Your Mind?, the ultima Thule in audience-participation shows. Since that time the program has spread itself over a CBS Pacific network, more than doubled West Coast sales for its sponsor, Planters Nut & Chocolate Co. Last week it was well ahead of regional rivals, rated more popular on the Coast than such national favorites...
Thank you for your fine account [March 18] of the cribbage tournament and presentation of the history, theory and practice of the game. But you make no mention of that almost fabulous will-o'-the-wisp, that ultima Thule of all cribbage players, the "29 hand." It is to crib fans what the hole-in-one is to the golfer, the 13-spade hand to the bridge player. . . . Three generations of our family watched and waited for it, in vain, till on a rainy night in the winter of '32, when playing with my husband before the traditional...