Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arctops may do more than merely keep the Weather Bureau supplied with data. Half a dozen sciences, from botany to terrestrial magnetism, hope to benefit. Scientifically, the American arctic is still untouched...
Last week a bill was creeping through Congress which would authorize the Weather Bureau to set up stations in the arctic. Eventually, the U.S. would have to ask Canada and Denmark to cooperate by lending or leasing sites...
Meanwhile, U.S. officials were going ahead unofficially with hopeful, picturesque plans. In charge of the project (nicknamed "Arctops") was Lieut. Colonel Charles J. Hubbard, a leading authority on arctic living and flying conditions...
Russia and Norway have a comparatively easy job keeping their arctic meteorologists alive and at work. Their stations can be reached by sea or land, while some parts of northern Canada and Greenland are accessible only...
...station and an airfield. Each main base would serve as headquarters for four satellite stations as much as 500 miles away, the maximum practical distance for supply planes. One station is planned for Peary Land, the farthest-north land on earth. Arctops may even put stations on the floating arctic ice, many miles from land...