Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles of Bering Strait. Its outpost, Little Diomede Island in Bering Strait, is separated from Russian-owned Big Diomede by only a mile and a half of open water. Its westernmost Pacific Ocean island (Attu) is only 250 miles southeast of Russia's advance submarine base on the Komandorskie Islands, only 696 miles east of Japan's advance base on Paramosmiri Island, off the toe of Kamchatka. An airplane from any of these Asiatic strongholds can cross the international date line and be over U. S. territory in 20 to 24 hours before it takes...
...Francisco passes within 300 miles of the Aleutian Islands. The seemingly shorter route via Hawaii is 1,100 miles longer. So an invader intending to attack the west coast of the U. S. would find it a great advantage to snaffle Alaska and use it as an advance base for operations by air and sea against the U. S. proper...
...Seward had not bought it. U. S. possession of it is a great strategic asset and $7,200,000 is not much more than the cost of a modern destroyer. Lying close to the great-circle course from northern Asiatic ports to the U. S., Alaska is a base from which U. S. submarines and aircraft can operate against the flank of any invader...
Biggest army bases in Alaska proper are at Anchorage on the south coast and Fairbanks in the heart of the territory. Moderate in climate, Anchorage is likely to be Army's big home base, and its Elmendorf Field is under construction. Fairbanks is only 356 miles up the Government-owned Alaska Railroad from Anchorage, but Ladd Field at Fairbanks has been laid down squarely in the midst of Alaska's 'toughest winter weather. The ground thaws on top but always remains frozen two or three feet down. There, working three shifts in Alaska's 24-hour...
...tame "the barbarians that are now infesting Europe." In the eyes of Princeton's Dr. Charles Rufus Morey, Marquand professor of art and archeology, the deluge had already arrived. Said he: "Never in the history of civilized art has humanity cut so poor a figure. Whatever is base, whatever is open to derision, whatever is ugly in human existence, is made a major theme not only by the most significant fiction of our time but by its art as well...