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...sailings from Greenland to America were made along an established route . . . The purpose of these voyages was to gather wood . . . Since this wood was carried on the current out of Hudson Bay, it is very likely that the Norsemen would seek its origin. This would lead them westward from Greenland through Hudson Strait down the west coast of Labrador, with its thousands of sheltering islands, [into] James Bay . eventually coming to the Albany River. The route up this river is an old one. It has few portages over 25 chains, and the trail takes one ... to the head of Lake...
...twice reorganized the German steel industry: once for Hitler's war production boss, Albert Speer, later for the Allies. With similar impartiality, he shipped $12 million worth of goods to the Soviets in 1949-50. Then, when Bonn clamped down on this trade, he switched westward, made $700,000 profit this year out of trading German steel for U.S. coal. Schlieker now claims to be a reformed character. To prove it, he recently gave Düsseldorf $475,000 for workers' housing. A British dossier concludes: "Schlieker is a ruthless opportunist, vain, ambitious and egotistical . . . With his ability...
...early morning, armored combat teams of the crack American Constabulary thrust westward in a surprise attack. Paratroops dropped near Frankenthal to secure a Rhine bridgehead. Partisan guerrillas closed in near Kaiserlautern and "destroyed" a supply dump. Threatened on their flanks, the 1st and 4th Divisions reeled back until units of the 2nd Armored Division, in reserve, moved up to hit the aggressors and cover the retreat...
Until a Russian-born tenor named Maxim Karolik came along, the first half of the 19th Century was rated a mediocre period in U.S. art. American painting at that time showed little of the imagination and enterprise that marked the nation's westward expansion; most artists contented themselves with rusty, romantic sunsets and tight, bright genre scenes. The dreamy landscapes of the Hudson River School and Albert Bierstadt's Wagnerian-mood pictures of the Rocky Mountains were considered the best...
...collection, says Karolik, is that "it expresses its own idiom, which is definitely American." The two pictures on the opposite page are clearly in that idiom. William Sharp's Railroad Jubilee on Boston Common, painted an even century ago, celebrates with Fourth of July fervor the westward march of the railroad empire builders. James Goodwyn Clonney's wooden Sleigh Ride has New England winter clarity and fireside warmth...