Word: norsemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...skinners" who drive the caterpillar trains (tractors and sleds) which bring supplies across the snow from Edmonton. Passenger service to & from Yellowknife, as well as to outlying claims, is furnished by Canadian Pacific Airlines and by bush pilots in small planes like ski-or pontoon-equipped Noorduyn Norsemen...
...engines came back across the ice. Five hours later a radio message from Commander Baird reported that the "snows" were 36 miles out. In the 80 or more days they would be gone, they would be supplied by four Dakota Transports (C-47s) and seven sturdy, single-engined Noorduyn Norsemen...
...Means's theory: the "Old Stone Mill" was a Christian church built before 1400 by the Norsemen...
When Caesar's legions first saw the granite-bound harbors of Armorica (ancient Celtic for Brittany, meaning near the sea) they built their forts on the high ground nearby. The Bretons who came five centuries later fortified its coasts. Through the centuries Norsemen, Norman dukes, British and French kings battled in long sieges of Breton bastions...
Favorite shipbuilding technique of the Norsemen was to dam the water out of a fjord, build the ship on the ground, float her off by breaking the dam and letting the sea back in. Last week Todd-Bath Iron Shipbuilding Corp. (South Portland, Me.) was using this old Viking trick and Maine's nine-foot tides to speed construction on 30 $1,600,000 pre-fabricated freighters for Britain. Having no fjords, Todd-Bath steam-shoveled a basin about five feet below water. At launching time (around May 1) the incoming tide bubbling through opened gates will gently float...