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Elsewhere, British engravings were not in vogue. Argentina refused to honor British mail carrying a new twopenny stamp featuring the disputed (but British-administered) Falkland Islands. Chile likewise objected because the stamp showed as British a portion of the Polar icecap she covets...
...military brass hats were determined that never again would they be handicapped by having to capture bases in the midst of war. They wanted bases needed (for Navy and Air Forces) from Greenland to the South Seas. Although military airmen's eyes were fixed on the North Polar icecap as the likeliest no man's land of a future war (because the military strength of the world is in the northern hemisphere), most of the proposed new bases were much nearer the Equator...
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who has seldom shunned the spectacular, made an ear-jarring proposal last week. He suggested dropping an atomic bomb to crack the more than 1,800-ft.-thick Antarctic polar icecap. Thus, the U.S. might gain access to the copper, iron, gold, coal and other minerals reported hidden below...
Captain Rickenbacker was not the first to eye the polar icecaps. Hiroshima's dust had hardly settled when English geophysicists suggested that polar icecaps might be blasted away entirely and, since the glaciers are tag-end relics of an all-but-ended ice age, the icecap would in all probability never reform. Some years ago an Australian geophysicist, Sir Edgeworth David, speculated on what would happen if the Antarctic icecap were dissolved. Sir Edgeworth concluded that the world's sea level would rise about 50 feet (others calculated as much as 100), inundating every seaport; climatic zones would...
...Operation Musk-Ox," said National Defense, is to study "winter operations generally in the Arctic weather zone," to assess "the mobility of oversnow vehicles." But everyone knew that any foreseeable war would not be won-or even fought-with tracked motor vehicles. What soldiers knew was that the polar icecap was no longer an impenetrable natural defense on Canada's topside. So "certain technical research projects in Arctic air and ground warfare will [also] be studied. . . . The expedition is expected to obtain information of immense value...