Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arctic Defense. Most of the talking and planning has been done, since last January, by the six-year-old U.S.-Canadian Permanent Joint Defense Board, which meets irregularly (alternating between Montreal and New York) and makes proposals to Washington and Ottawa. Some of its proposals have been routine and noncontroversial. Others are knotty and controversial. Knottiest: the defense of the Canadian Arctic. What is under discussion is whether the U.S. and Canada shall i) man Arctic bases (some wartime ones, some to be built) with troops of both nations and 2) standardize weapons, all the way from aircraft to rifles...
...forlorn little landing strips like "Crystal 1," at Fort Chimo in northeastern Quebec, and "Crystal 2," on Baffin Island's Frobisher Bay. Soldiers of both nations would also staff a ring of weather stations and radar listening posts all across the continent's bleak Arctic vastness and down the east and west coasts to the U.S. The suggestions sounded simple. But the arguments pro & con were complex...
...irregular orbit, completing its slow cycle in a matter of centuries. He keeps watch on its movements, working through a corps of super-tough field men. They have to be tough: observations in comfortable latitudes are helpful but not sufficient. Pole spotters have to travel into the Arctic where the pole hides out. This year three Madillmen surrounded the pole, set up delicate instruments to chart its lines of magnetic force...
Members of W1AF, at the University's 1947 summer session, would then maintain contact with Kent's Island, obtaining such information as weather reports and results of field trips. W1AF would also handle traffic with the SS Bowdoin on its yearly trip to Greenland and the Arctic...
Carrying 38½ tons of gasoline, the Dreamboat had no room for de-icing equipment, ran into a nightmare of icing conditions over the Arctic. But it made, the 9,500-mile run in 39½ hours. Its crew had gathered evidence that the North Magnetic Pole was 200 miles north of the position shown on the charts. They had also proved that transpolar air war was possible: the Army's new B-36 bomber-or any comparable foreign plane-could make a similar flight carrying an atomic bomb...