Word: musk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listened as Brigadier R. O. G. Morton, Canadian Army commander of the military district, told them: "The ground you will cover is historic. Brave men have given their lives there for the advancement of the race." He finished with a command: "To post!" The Canadian Army's "Operation Musk-Ox" was under...
Next Feb. 14, said the National Defense Department, a small Canadian Army force, probably as few as 45 highly trained officers and men, plus some hand-picked observers from other nations, would start out from Churchill, Manitoba, on the west shore of Hudson Bay, in a maneuver called "Operation Musk-Ox." In cabbed, high-powered, 4½-ton snowmobiles,* Canadian-designed for the invasion of Norway, they would plow northward through long Arctic nights and through temperatures 50° or more below zero. Three thousand miles later, after a gigantic U-turn on the roof of the earth...
Purpose of "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...
...well-trained herbalists, Dr. Chang follows old texts going back to the foundation of Chinese medicine more than 4,000 years ago. Besides a thousand & one herbs, he uses concoctions of such weird ingredients as the gallstones of horses, rats' foetuses pickled in oil, powdered snakes, powdered horns, musk...
Said he last week "The Eskimo deserves the highest praise for his ingenuity, resourcefulness and intelligence. He has seen the 'crazy white man' take all his whales, all his musk oxen, most of his seals, and many of his birds. Yet he has not only survived but improved himself...