Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that year Britain began driving official stakes. Applying the rule-of-thumb used in the Arctic, Britain drew a narrowing wedge to the Pole from the boundaries of its Falkland Islands possessions, declared it under the Union Jack. This gained a semblance of international recognition when Britain was able to slap a tax on all whales tried out in British Antarctic bases, enforce it until floating factories were introduced. Thus encouraged, Britain claimed a similar wedge for New Zealand in the Ross Sea area, to reinforce the hazy, unofficial claims of its hero explorers, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest...
...features to a League for the Abolition of Amateur Ketchup Throwing. Not long ago it was suggested that fencing foils be used to settle family disputes, that the gap between Alaska and Asia be plugged so that the Japanese Current would not be chilled by meeting up with the Arctic Current. Another thinker revealed that he was working on an airplane that could make 800 miles an hour. Another mind had invented an inverted periscope for seeing fish under water. After the inventor mentioned the fact that he had seen a submerged submarine 350 feet away with his periscope...
Russia's other Balkan object is age-old: an exit from the Black Sea. Russia's only other outlets to the world are through Vladivostok, the Baltic and the Arctic Ocean. The U. S. would be in a similar position if its only outlets to the world were through Alaska, Hudson Bay, Newfoundland, and the mouth of the Mississippi, which was held by a foreign power (the Turks). Since the 18th Century the Russians have hankered to possess the Bosporus and Dardanelles. When they tried to get them in 1854 the British, the French and later the Italians...
...There, working three shifts in Alaska's 24-hour summer daylight, Army engineers have laid down a two-mile-long runway and reared the first of Ladd Field's hangars and shops. There, this winter, Air Corps pilots and mechanics will get their first big lesson in Arctic operations...
Hemispheric cooperation today takes the place of the policy suggested in my seventh point. Unlike Germany, the U. S. prefers a policy of cooperation to one of domination. But Americans must view realistically the defense needs of this country in the area bounded by Alaska, the Arctic lands, Greenland, the Caribbean islands, northern South America and Hawaii...