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Emphasizing "geographic landscape," Raisz says that "it is more important to know that a region is tropical forest and not desert than that it is 1000 or 2000 feet above sea level--thus, in this atlas, field is distinguished from forest, savanna from desort, tundra from boreal forest. The characteristics of mountains are indicated, cultivated land is shown and omitted are the couniless names of small places. Not to exclude the absence of gay colors showing where countries are--for who can know where the boundary line of the future will...
When the ice went out in the Donjek, the White, the Robertson, the Johnson, the Duke and the Beaver, it took most of the timber bridges with it. Then the rains sluiced down. In some places The Road melted into the tundra. From April 15 until last week, there was no through traffic between Whitehorse and Fairbanks...
...Tundra Troopers...
...Robert Thompson, who commands the Scouts, picks his men for one chief quality: ability to live for long periods off the barren Alaska land, subzero blasts to mosquito-clotted summer mugginess. Their physical endurance is far beyond the ordinary soldier's; one Scout walked 90 miles over corrugated tundra in three days. Scouts use Trapper Nelson packs instead of the Army's steel-framed rucksack, shun Army K and C rations for dehydrated beef and other foods which weigh less. A Scout's greatest fear is that he may fall through the ice, numb his hands...
...their icy tundra dugouts the 10,000 to 12,000 isolated Jap defenders of Kiska were warmed up last week by heavy bombardments from the sea, first since the U.S. Navy raided this Jap-held Aleutian base nearly a year ago. Now, when heavy fogs had slowed up the air force's shuttle-bombing, the Navy stepped in again...