Word: icecap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rescue nine men from the Greenland icecap...
Nine men from the Greenland icecap rescue (TIME, Jan. 3) riding in style in a red-tailed C-54 transport, landed 30 minutes late in a freezing rain at La Guardia Field. Official greeters swarmed all over them and pumped their hands while newsmen pumped their memories for details of their Greenland exploits. ("How did you find conditions on the icecap?" asked one blonde newshen.) In the background Air Force P.R.O.s worked diligently. The glory would not have been theirs to exploit had the Air Force been beaten to the rescue by the Navy's carrier Saipan...
...Force pumped out the bare details of one failure after another. Battling 100-m.p.h. winds and 40-below-zero temperatures, the rescuers could not even get started for three days. When they did, the B-17 swerved out of control as it swooped down on to the rutted icecap, nosed over into a snowbank and marooned its two crewmen with the others...
...ground pickup. Twice the tow plane managed to snare the glider on a pickup line. Both times the glider broke through the icy crust and bogged down in the snow; the pickup line snapped. The glider's crew joined the nine stranded men on the icecap. More food and clothing were dropped, along with heaters, fuel and a collapsible plywood shelter. The shivering airmen burrowed into the snow, rigged a canvas roof overhead as protection against the gale. The days dragged...
Geologists were not alarmed nor even much interested in the Brown theory. The Antarctic icecap is shrinking, they insisted, not growing. Even if it were growing, it could not upset the earth; geologists are confident that it never...