Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sticky Fin. In Kenora, Ont., Ice Fisherman Oscar Boivin had no luck with minnows, stuck a marshmallow on his hook and pulled in a 14-lb. lake trout...
...half light of the North Pole, 50 years after Explorer Robert Peary first got there, the U.S. nuclear submarine Skate cleaved up to the surface through densely packed winter ice. There Skate's officers and men, on their second underwater voyage to the Pole (TIME, Aug. 25), conducted a solemn ceremony: they scattered the ashes of Polar Explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins, dead since last December, who had envisioned the possibility of journeying to the Pole by submarine. That done, Skate submerged, went on to complete a record trip of 3,090 miles and twelve days under the ice pack...
...Morton J. Rubin of the U.S. Weather Bureau last week. Back from 15 months with the Russians at Mirny on the Indian Ocean coast of Antarctica, Rubin revealed that a Russian party trekked about 1,500 miles inland to the "pole of inaccessibility," setting off dynamite charges in the ice to make seismic soundings every 30-50 miles. Echoes showed continuous land instead of a complex of islands or submerged mountains. The Russians say the land ranges from 2,500 to 12,000 ft. above sea level, with ice up to 3,000 ft. thick covering the high points...
Isle Royale, a national park, is 45 miles long and 20 miles from the Ontario shore. Originally it was covered with forest. Moose arrived about 1900, probably crossing from the mainland on the ice. With no hunters and no predators, the moose multiplied unchecked, and by 1930 had nibbled the forests bare of browse. Then came a great die-off; the big herds of feeble, emaciated moose declined until there were only 200 survivors. When the browse grew back, the moose herds grew with it-but then another die-off came around...
...stop this tragic cycle, park authorities tried importing four zoo-bred wolves. But they preferred living on human handouts, and had to be sent back to the zoo. Eventually, wild wolves from Canada crossed on the ice. Purdue and Park Service biologists, some of whom have braved the island's fierce and lonely winter to study the working of nature's balance, report that the wolves' system is to cut a single moose out of a herd and keep nipping at him day after day until he weakens. Sometimes it takes a week. In crusted snow that...