Word: antarctica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Antarctica is about the size of Europe and the U.S. put together, and most of it has never been seen by the human eye. Most, but not all of it is covered with level, monotonous névé (permanent snowfield feeding the continent's icecap). In many places, great peaks stick up through the ice, as bare and forbidding as mountains on the moon. Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, the expedition's commander, thinks there may be ranges 15,000 ft. high...
...present icecap, most geologists believe, is comparatively new. Millions of years ago, they think, Antarctica was warmer, even tropical. A seam of coal 180 miles from the South Pole proves that the continent was once covered with vigorous vegetation. There may be oilfields too, and mineral deposits, including portentous uranium...
...TIME has come to be such a truly international magazine (now that we are publishing special editions on every continent except Antarctica) that stories based on TIME are appearing in such unlikely papers as Yi Shih Pao of Chungking-En Son Dakika of Turkey, Min Juo Jih Pao of Nanning, Le Combattant (Journal Officiel de I'Association des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de la Guerre du Maroc) published in Casablanca-and even in papers like the Berliner Borzen-Zeitung, Ncues Wiener Tagblatt and the Rheinische-Westfalische Zeitung (which pick up the news from TIME's Stockholm Edition...
...Here are the 20 editions of TIME, printed on every continent except Antarctica. TIME U. S. (four printings) Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Classroom; TIME Canadian; TIME Air Express for Latin America (five printings); Export, Mexico City, Bogotá, Buenas Aires, Sào Paulo; TIME Overseas (three printings); Export Honolulu, Stockholm; TIME for the Armed Forces (seven printings); Pony, Pacific Pony, VMail, Sydney, Calcutta, Teheran, Cairo...
...find TIME in some strange places these days-now that we are printing special editions on every continent of the world (except Antarctica...