Word: arctic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John J. Teal, anthropologist extraordinary, is successful in his mission, it will be a tremendous blow to our dairy, textile and packing industries. Nevertheless, all the best to the "Arctic Rustler...
Canada's vast, undeveloped, underpopulated Arctic area has assumed new importance: sharing the major part of the top of the world with the Soviet Union, it is the Western Hemisphere's first line of defense against transpolar air attack. It is also a potential treasure house of mineral wealth, and a few pioneering Canadians are proving that the good life is possible even in the Far North. Last week Sam Welles, chief of TIME'S Ottawa Bureau, who has just completed an air tour of the strategic western Arctic, filed this report...
...trim house, the well-kept grounds and smartly-dressed Mrs. Mackenzie might well have been in the southern Ontario town of Oakville, where she used to live. But they were just 92 miles from the Arctic Circle, at Norman Wells, where her husband runs a refinery for Imperial Oil. Permafrost, the permanently frozen subsoil of the North, sometimes makes the ground heave under the installations, but cannot stop the refinery from turning out an annual 320,000 barrels of oil products. In July permafrost is also a foot to three feet below Mrs. Mackenzie's garden, but cannot stop...
...wolflike howls of Huskies still echo through northern hamlets in the long nights. Yet even Aklavik, well above the Arctic Circle, has 20 cars to substitute for dog sleds. Elsewhere in the North there are now nearly 4,000 licensed motor vehicles, though roads are still scattered. Travel to remote areas used to take months. Planes have brought any place in the area within a few hours of Edmonton...
Today, when almost every nation that can afford Arctic expeditions is sending them into the field, Nye's stay-at-home equations may prove to be a valuable key to polar secrets...