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...years ago, when Army Engineers asked Kiewit to take on one of its biggest projects to date-"Operation Bluejay," a $100-million-plus contract to build heavy-bomber airfields on Greenland and housing for 4,000 men-Kiewit turned down the hurry-up job. When the Engineers could get no one else to take it on, Kiewit finally agreed to tackle it. He formed a combine of his own choosing, headed up three other firms to do the job. The project is now well under...
...five legs of the flight, the Air Force rescue planes were guarded by other search-and-rescue planes that also flew weather reconnaissance. Extra gas tanks were crammed in the space for ten passengers. The lumbering H-19s found the going roughest between Labrador and Greenland. After three misses, the helicopters dropped to within 35 feet of the icy waves and poked through 100-yard visibility to a tiny island in a Greenland fiord...
Glittering in his gold-laced uniform, Denmark's King Frederik boarded the 1,054-ton royal yacht Dannebrog in Copenhagen harbor and weighed anchor for Greenland on his first official visit since 1921. Queen In grid, who does not share her salty husband's love of the sea, announced that she would make the trip...
...Greenland's glacial blanket, explains Dr. Nye, tends to spread out and flow downhill because of its own weight. But this movement is balanced by the rock floor compressed under centuries of ice and snow. Some ice is lost in summer's melting and in icebergs that break off to sea. But the big glacier is refreshed with snow slowly hardening into more ice. It is this almost perfect equilibrium that Dr. Nye describes in his complicated formulas. Having written the equations, the lab-locked explorer then works backward, calculating ice depth from surface contours...
...began with a Danish survey map made in 1938. His mathematical predictions agree with measurements made by French Explorer Paul-Emile Victor as recently as 1950. Victor's party, however, had to make a 700-mile trek across southern Greenland. Every ten miles they measured ice thickness by detonating a charge of dynamite and timing the echo as it bounced from the rock floor far below. Admittedly more accurate, Victor's seismic soundings were time-consuming and limited. As check-points for Nye's formulas, they take on new importance...