Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many a man, as for a tanned National Park Ranger named Bill Butler, it would be a rare day of rest, warmth and comfort. The odds had favored Bill Butler's spending Christmas high on glacier-scarred Mount Rainier. For four days he had been battling Arctic cold, avalanches and the dead-white swirl of alpine blizzards in a search for a lost Marine Corps transport plane. But a fall on rock-fanged ice had finally sent him skiing painfully back to his snug cottage in a timber-bordered Government camp. With his torn ribs healing he would idle...
...North Polar regions," says Andrews, "are problems of a different nature. . . . We have a great deal to learn about weather in the Arctic regions, the movement of ice, what lies at the bottom of the Arctic seas. . . . Today that region means rapid transport, strategic air bases, weather stations. . . . The Arctic will soon become a Broadway for intercontinental transport...
...Below Schooldays. From a campus window near Fairbanks last week, 100 miles from the Arctic Circle, shirt-sleeved President Bunnell watched his 335 students trudge to their classes in knee-deep snow and 30-below temperatures. They were so used to the view that only a few paused to look off at 20,300-ft. Mt. McKinley, in the distance, copper-red in the glare of a dead-of-winter sun. Skis stuck in the snow made picket fences around the dorms...
Winter's first major assault, a vast cold air mass from the Arctic, swept across the nation this week. Florida felt the chill fringes of it. In Grand Forks, N. Dak., the temperature dropped to 17° below zero. Around the stark deserted tipples of the coal mines from West Virginia to southern Illinois, a northwest wind whooped. John L. Lewis had a new ally...
...once-gay whoopers learned to shun civilization. Whenever the white man's guns appeared, they fled deeper into the wilderness. Now their remnants breed in some unknown place in Canada's far north. This tactic of despair may be their final undoing: they are not Arctic birds, and are probably unsuited to far northern breeding grounds...