Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next problem was to get the 58th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron to drop the pole from one of its B-29s on the drifting ice covering the North Pole. No, said Brigadier General Donald Smith. Stan's pole was too big for the 58th's bomb bays, which were filled with long-range gas tanks. But word got around. A Fairbanks radio commentator known as "North Pole Nelly" suggested that Santa Claus letters from Alaskan kids could be tossed out with the pole. Air Force wives were enthusiastic. Even General Smith's wife pleaded for Stan...
Crystal Ball of Ice Snow was flying last week on the Juneau Ice Field, and the last of the Jirps (members of the Juneau Ice Field Research Project) had flown or skied to warmer levels. They had completed one more season of probing Alaska's great ice mass, clocking its slow motions, and trying to use it as a vast crystal ball to predict the earth's future climate...
Organized in 1948, by the American Geographical Society, JIRP was led by Glaciologist Maynard Malcolm Miller (now 30), who decided that the Juneau Ice Field was an ideal subject for a long-range study of glaciers. It is comparatively accessible, only twelve miles from Juneau. Out of the huge field (700 sq. mi.) flow at least eleven glaciers, ten of which are slowly receding. The eleventh, which particularly intrigued the scientists, is the great Taku glacier, which has advanced more than 3½ miles in the last 50 years...
Nothing Up His Sleeve. In Excelsior Springs, Mo., police arrested Edwin Cotteleer, magician-entertainer at the Elms Hotel, charged him with making off from the hotel with silverware, dishes, two ice buckets, a crystal water pitcher, a card table, table mats, bath rugs, tablecloths, napkins, hand and bath towels, wash cloths, blankets, sheets, pillows and pillow slips...
Cool & Collected. In Memphis, two hoodlums held up the Southern United Ice & Coal Co. at pistol point and walked out with 12½ lbs. of ice...