Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mythical Kee bird, which flies around the North Pole plaintively crying: "Kee-KeeKee-rist, but it's cold!" Membership emblem : a walrus tooth on a key chain. To qualify for membership (by invitation only), initiates must have accomplished any two of four feats: completed a mission above the Arctic Circle; ridden the White Pass & Yukon Railway from Whitehorse to Skagway; flown across the mountains from Whitehorse to Norman Wells on the Mackenzie; gone down the Yukon from Fort Yukon to the mouth...
...wild western rim of Canada's Northwest Territories, 100 miles south of the Arctic Circle, the U.S. Army is in the oil business...
...devoted addicts. With homemade equipment, they work at a hobby that requires a very high degree of workmanship-grinding telescope mirrors which must be accurate to two-millionths of an inch (TIME, Aug. to, 1942). The man who taught most of them the technique is a onetime Arctic explorer (who sailed with Peary) named Russell W. Porter. His amateur grinding has made him so expert that he is now a consultant on the polishing of Caltech's famed 200-in. Mt. Wilson telescope. Since 1926 Porter and an enthusiastic partner, Editor Albert G. Ingalls of the Scientific American, have...
...Arctic Passage (RKO-Radio) is a documentary short about the building of the Alaska Military Highway. It is the eleventh and one of the best of RKO's This Is America series (Private Smith of the U.S.A., Air Crew, etc.), which are among the liveliest and best of U.S. fact films. In 20 minutes this show manages to give a vivid impression of one of the toughest rush-construction jobs ever undertaken-the building of 1,500 miles of road by 12,000 men in seven months...
With plenty to occupy them elsewhere, the Germans took time last week to raid Spitsbergen the frozen, far-north island on the edge of the Arctic Ocean. Heavy naval forces shelled a garrison of Norwegians. Said a Berlin communiqué: German grenadiers, in the face of "violent resistance," landed, destroyed installations and coal dumps, seized prisoners, retired...