Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good to last. A cold Arctic blast gathered momentum west of Hudson Bay, moved eastward across the Lakes. Canadians sighed: winter was here again...
...line's fast, sleek plywood Orions. They were made by Lockheed, which had been started in 1916 by two barnstorming brothers, Allan and Malcolm Loughead (pronounced Lockheed). Their planes were already famed; Wiley Post had circled the globe in a Vega, Sir Hubert Wilkins flew one over the Arctic Circle to Spitsbergen, the Lindberghs flew a later model, the Sirius, "north to the Orient." But Lockheed's till was empty. In the great pre-depression merger mania, the Loughead brothers sold out to the Detroit Aircraft Corp. Detroit Aircraft soon went broke...
...plus some hand-picked observers from other nations, would start out from Churchill, Manitoba, on the west shore of Hudson Bay, in a maneuver called "Operation Musk-Ox." In cabbed, high-powered, 4½-ton snowmobiles,* Canadian-designed for the invasion of Norway, they would plow northward through long Arctic nights and through temperatures 50° or more below zero. Three thousand miles later, after a gigantic U-turn on the roof of the earth (see map), "Operation Musk-Ox" would arrive at Edmonton. The only breaks in 81 days of isolation would be the visits of R.C.A.F. supply planes...
Purpose of "Operation Musk-Ox," said National Defense, is to study "winter operations generally in the Arctic weather zone," to assess "the mobility of oversnow vehicles." But everyone knew that any foreseeable war would not be won-or even fought-with tracked motor vehicles. What soldiers knew was that the polar icecap was no longer an impenetrable natural defense on Canada's topside. So "certain technical research projects in Arctic air and ground warfare will [also] be studied. . . . The expedition is expected to obtain information of immense value...
...Rights of Man." But few will disagree that the Russian Revolution "inaugurated the era of collectivism, the most frightening, powerful and misunderstood phenomenon of the 20th Century." Author Scott believes that socialism is inevitable (" . . . if the Soviet Union, by some miracle, were to fall tomorrow into the Arctic Sea, the collectivist revolution . . . would not stop"), and that capitalism, as now practiced in the U.S., must soon go the way of the dinosaurs...