Word: arctic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. The Rev. Thomas Cunningham, 53, weather-beaten Jesuit priest for 24 years in arctic Alaska, who traveled on dogsled with chalice and folded altar to his far-flung parishioners, translated Catholic hymns into the Eskimo tongue; of a heart attack; in Point Barrow, Alaska. Father Tom was guide in 1958 to a party of 19 U.S. scientists trapped on a narrow ice island when it was dislodged by a storm, kept up morale until the whole party was rescued by plane...
soon to sink in arctic snow...
...Yukon and Northwest Territories, a happy discovery served notice on Canada that tomorrow is coming sooner than it thinks. On black-fly-infested tundra 175 miles above Dawson City, Chance No. 1, the first gas-oil well in Canada near the Arctic Circle, blew in with a roar. The discovery was made by Western Minerals Co., which belongs to Calgary Lawyer-Oilman Eric Harvie. Gushed the Toronto Globe and Mail: "A landmark in northern history." Sixty-one years after it struck gold, the Yukon had struck black gold...
...Western Minerals, companies like California Standard, Amerada, Shell, Texaco and Midland have grabbed up 130 million acres in the area to stake millions on electronically corroborated hunches that underneath the permafrost lies one of the world's greatest oil pools. The rush has even pushed into the remote Arctic Archipelago, where at least ten companies have asked for exploration permits. Companies with household names such as Richfield are planning to explore places with exotic names such as Graham Island. And the northern halves of British Columbia and Alberta, though far south of last week's discovery site, have...
...increases apace. The scientists may soon beat the problem with a nuclear reactor to provide heat and power for a year on one fueling. The first small portable reactor, now being built by Alco Products, Inc. at Dunkirk, N.Y. for the U.S. Army, is scheduled for installation in the Arctic next year. When it works, the Arctic frontier will indeed push on and on toward the North Pole...