Word: musk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announcement. Actually, U.S. and Canadian military men have been working together all along. Since war's end the armed forces of both nations have been experimenting to see how machines would function and how men could live and fight in the Arctic. The Canadian Army's "Musk-Ox" expedition (TIME, Feb. 25, 1946), on which U.S. observers went along, was one test. So was the U.S. "Operation Frostbite"-the northern trip of the aircraft carrier Midway, which carried a Canadian observer. The U.S.Army's midwinter tests of men and machines in 60°-below-zero weather...
...alluring smell is the musk deer's undoing. For centuries, through the rhododendrons in the cool Himalayan foothills where he lives, the male musk deer has been relentlessly chased by hunters. Unfortunately for him, the musk deer has a scent gland that contains a sex lure. In its pure form, musk is worth $40,000 a pound to perfume manufacturers...
...seduction at the piano [TIME, Nov. 25]. But what is going to happen now that Airwick, the total deodorant, is spending thousands too? . . . Will the moral turpitude curve show a downward trend when Airwick kills the high-priced and seductive smells distilled from the scent glands of the musk deer and the civet cat? Think on these things...
Five days later the significance of his speech became clear. From Washington came word of a joint arctic defense plan for the U.S. and Canada. It was based on the military premise that Canada's vast northland might become a battleground in another war. Operation Musk-Ox (TIME, May 20) had proved that the north was no longer impassable or impregnable. It had also proved that Canada had not yet developed the proper equipment for warfare there...
...What Musk-Ox had taught about defending Canada in the North, Lieut. Colonel Patrick Douglas Baird, expedition commander, saved for Ottawa's official ears. Lesser problems, as whether it is better in the North to sleep raw in a sleeping bag or to wear pajamas, were not settled at all: the men disagreed. The men of Musk-Ox did agree that: 1) biggest problem is maintenance of fuel supplies for snowmobiles, which carry 40 gallons, eat it up at a two-miles-a-gallon clip; 2) Canada's Eskimos* "are the friendliest, most honest people I ever...