Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, in the interest of self-knowledge and with an approving nod from the Department of National Defense, Canada set out to look more closely at itself-particularly at the relatively unknown north. From Ottawa's 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...
...they know they will be found out and discredited, editors are not likely to feature a big story that they know to be incorrect. The most charitable interpretation is that the Sun is guilty only of carelessness, and that the real villain of the piece is the as yet unknown source of the "facts...
...Conn., Boston quietly saw to it that Democrat Curley would get the best of care. The state legislature voted to pay him his $20,000-a-year salary while he was in jail. Then the obliging legislature upped ruddy, 49-year-old City Clerk John B. Hynes, a political unknown, to the office of temporary mayor. Salary: $20,000. In or out of jail, sick or hale, Jim Curley still seemed to have official Boston firmly by the tail...
...three-car train, moving into a small, defeated neighbor country with a Government friendly to Moscow; nevertheless, it was guarded by 100 able-bodied young security policemen. In the next car, a "hard" car (i.e., without cushions), 70 Soviet sailors were riding toward an unknown destination; they were not told where they were bound, nor did these servants of a "classless" society dare ask their officers. They preferred to ask me, a foreigner. Most revealing of all was the view from the train's windows. On the Russian side of the border, I saw ruined, largely unrestored towns that...
...associates found the whole phenomenon highly mystifying. Their subjects (all volunteers) varied enormously in resistance to oxygen poisoning; and each individual varied greatly from day to day. One man was poisoned in seven minutes one day, resisted the same dose for nearly 2½ hours another day. For some unknown reason, people are more vulnerable to oxygen poisoning under water than under the same pressure in a pressure chamber. And at a pressure of one atmosphere or less (as in high-altitude flight), human beings apparently can breathe pure oxygen indefinitely without harm...