Word: icing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...equipment, including tubes. It got similar rights on common-carrier communications equipment from Western Electric and the Bell System. At Philco Corp., which in 1956 filed a still pending $150 million antitrust suit against RCA involving color TV patents, nobody was talking yet. But after Zenith broke the ice, RCA's patent pool seemed to be thawing at last...
...chin. When Bristol's short-range Britannia 102s finally went into service from London to Johannesburg last February, said Smallpeice, they were 19 months late, which held down BOAC's net profit in fiscal 1956 to $850,000. Yet the 102's tendency to ice at high altitudes has still not been licked. During 1956, Bristol tried to correct the icing, which caused dangerous flameouts. Finally, it devised a still not entirely satisfactory solution: a platinum glow plug "pilot light" that automatically relights an engine if it goes out. Meanwhile, the same problems have held...
Putting the buildings under the ice, the Army figures, will save an enormous amount of fuel, which accounts for three-quarters of the cargo carried to an Arctic base. This alone is a big advantage, but to have military value, any installation on the icecap needs good supply routes to the outside world. Airlift is too expensive and dangerous, and weather on the icecap is often too rough for surface transport. So the engineers are putting roads under the ice too. With a Peters plow they dig a long trench 20 ft. deep. They roof it temporarily with curved, corrugated...
...Ice Warehouse. Even more ambitious is a chamber 65 ft. square and 25 ft. high that the engineers have dug with coal-mining machinery in the face of a glacier near Thule. It is 150 ft. from the top of the ice and 500 ft. back from the face, and it would make a fine warehouse, invisible from above and with built-in refrigeration. The engineers figure that much bigger chambers can be dug without danger of the roof caving in. What they do not know so far is how long their ice structures will last. Ice behaves in some...
...goal of all this research is active military use of the Greenland icecap, whose strategic position dominates most of the U.S., Europe and the U.S.S.R. Major air bases on the ice are not likely, and in any case, the Army is not much concerned with air bases. More likely it is interested in icecap missile bases, which could be ideal places to station giant rockets in ready-to-go position. Temperature and humidity would be low and constant, deep under the ice, and this is good for delicate mechanism. Under-ice supply routes would lead invisibly in from the coast...