Word: tundras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rockcliffe Airport, a Lancaster bomber, carrying cameras, thousands of feet of film and a crew of seven, took off for Churchill, in northern Manitoba. Other Royal Canadian Air Force detachments have been assigned to photograph Canada's uncharted wildernesses from the eastern slopes of the Rockies to the tundra wastes of the Northwest Territories...
...opened in 1943 behind the Urals. There are coal mines covering 4,000 square miles, a total of 1,500,000 slave workers in the pits. The region is subArctic. The ground is so hard frozen that those who die cannot be buried, but are left lying on the tundra, where the wolves and other wild animals take care of them...
...Tundra Trudgers. So sparsely settled is Labrador that at no point would more than 300 trudge over the tundra to vote. At Comfort Bight there were only two: Fisherman Stanley Green and his wife. At Henley Harbour there were 27, all named Stone. Bradley John Point's five were all Pottles, Northwest Island's 14 all Bakers...
...Tundra Theater. The new plan, prepared by the U.S.-Canadian Permanent Joint Defense Board, called for the same close cooperation in peace for the defense of northern North America as had existed during the war. The two countries would maintain defense bases and weather stations on the roof of the continent; they would devise and make suitable equipment; their forces would be coordinated, trained (see below) and armed with the same arctic weapons. If the tundras ever faced invasion, U.S. and Canadian troops would man the arctic defenses together...
...presented one of the best entertainment schedules heard on the continent. By using commercial-free Armed Forces Radio Service records, KFAR offers the pick of U.S. fare without plug-uglies. Its record library gives Alaskans the music they like best: symphonies and operatic arias. Most popular non-musical program: Tundra Topics, full of each day's sourdough gossip (who is prospecting where, conditions on Woodchopper Creek...