Word: arctic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long haul to the Ural mills, to say nothing of the mills in European Russia. The steel mills of central Russia must transport their ores and coal from the Ukraine in the south and from the war-developed mine at Vorkuta (also a famed slave-labor camp) on the Arctic Circle...
Oxcarts & Airdrops. The 7th's men, although equipped with parkas and other arctic garb, were suffering in the coldest weather anywhere along the Allied front. For a while their supply road to the east-coast port of Iwon was blocked by snowdrifts ten or twelve feet deep. They resorted to oxcarts and airdrops. Said Major General David Barr, cheerfully: "There is nothing to worry about." This week the supply road was reopened...
Most of the Arctic Ocean is covered with spongy, saltwater ice only about ten feet thick-too thin to support anything more weighty than a family of iglooed Eskimos. Last week the Air Force reported that many hundred miles from land, aircraft crews of its weather service on polar flights had discovered ice islands with more important possibilities. Pictures of one of them were shown to an Alaskan Science Conference at Washington. The ice island is some 35 miles long and 18 miles wide; some parts rise 90 ft. above the frozen ocean. If it is really floating...
...dismal, Arctic citizens of Lower Slobbovia are forever doomed to stand buried to their chins in snow, bitten from behind by sempiternally voracious bears and wolves. The luckless victims of Fearless Fosdick, the fiendish detective (Capp's caricature of Dick Tracy), who is a dead shot and trigger-itchy, always end up perforated as neatly as so many slices of Swiss cheese. No true Abner fan (classified by Capp as a "slobbering" fan) can forget the magnificent moment when J. Roaringham Fatback, the hog tycoon, ordered Onnecessary Mountain tilted sideways with enormous jacks to keep its shadow from falling...
...airmen flying the far north in search of weather data have often been bedeviled and bewildered by the arctic twilight. During the long arctic winter, the navigators of the 375th Squadron, at Eielson Airforce Base near Fairbanks, Alaska, had no trouble. They used special "grid" maps* and flew by the stars, visible all the time. During the arctic summer, they flew by the never-setting...