Word: icebergs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...April 4, 1912 the S. S. Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden trip and sunk with the loss of 1500 lives. The British Government invited the nations of the world to a conference held at London where an agreement was drafted and later signed by which all the powers agreed to help defray the expenses of an International Ice Patrol in proportion to their respective shipping...
...methods whereby an iceberg is slowly disintegrated and destroyed by nature are varied. The pounding of the heavy seas, rain, and the warm Gulf Stream which meets the Labrador cur- rent on the Banks, all contribute to the gradual erosion of the huge ice mountains. Warm heavy fogs rising from the mixture of warm and cold water are a big factor in the slow decay of the bergs...
Last week two Coast Guard cutters, the Tampa, the Modoc, sailed north to play "I spy" with icebergs. They are to patrol steamship lanes, chart location of icebergs, figure the speed and direction of iceberg-drift, issue warning to Atlantic liners. Though equipped with mines designed to blow icebergs to pieces, they often find bergs which explosives can hardly injure. An iceberg may contain 36,000,000 tons of ice, eight-ninths of which are below the surface of the water. When dynamited, a giant berg merely loses a few large chunks, which then become small bergs, or "growlers...
...American territory, the photographs will be admitted free of charge. On the other hand if ice and snow are rather too elusive to be land, the top of the world may not be exempt from a republican tariff. Although these questions agitate men who have probably never seen an iceberg, the polar bears may no doubt be permitted a yawn. That a sliding scale of import duties can have a vital effect on denizens of the slippery north seems unlikely. Even the Eskimos do not appear to be lobbying in congressional haunts...
Last week a lonely Coast Guard cutter, the Tampa, was hurrying north to the Grand Banks off Newfoundland. Behind her lay a winter season of snooping after rum-runners off the U. S. Before her stretched a season of snooping af-ter icebergs. On April 15 she, or her alternate iceberg scout, the Modoc, will heave to at latitude 41° 46' north, longitude 50° 14' west. Her crew, except for the ever present watch in crow's-nest and bridge, will fire three volleys, will moan "taps" in lament for the sinking of the Titanic...