Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy's aims are partly scientific but mainly-and frankly-military: 1) to train personnel and test equipment in frigid zones (away from the North Polar region where the Russian bear crouches); 2) to develop techniques for operating bases under arctic conditions...
...Portland, Maine, police finally restored to his family a wandering little window-shopper who had somehow lost his bearings: nine-year-old Robert E. Peary III, exploratory grandson of the late Arctic explorer...
Every year Arctic Canada becomes more important as a potential route for airplanes, which have to fall back on compass navigation when radio and ground contact fails them. Next season, Madill has orders to chart the position of the pole even more exactly. He may get help from the U.S. Army, which has more than a weather eye on its "Northern Frontier...
...Arctic-conscious U.S. Army has to keep the Frozen North frozen. The reason: beneath much of Alaska, as in other Arctic lands, lies a thick layer of "permafrost," or permanently frozen ground. It is hard and firm, but, as Russians discovered in Siberia long ago, even a trickle of heat can turn it to slithery muck. Roads and airport runways, absorbing summer sun, get as squashy as cranberry bogs. In winter, the warmth of a heated building may seep into the permafrost, allowing floors to sink and walls to wobble drunkenly. Many Alaskan villages, built in defiance of permafrost, look...
Last week, near Fairbanks, Alaska, Army engineers were watching thermometers sunk in the icy subsoil under buildings and airports. Their job: to catch up with the Russians, leading authorities on Arctic construction problems...