Word: plateauing
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...hard to believe that the South Pole can be vulgarized, but this has now been done and been done thoroughly. One would have supposed that the Antarctic plateau would have rejected the atmosphere of the studios; but Paramount has marvelously subdued it?split polysyllabic heroics over it, decorated it with sentimental ribbons, trodden it with captions, tickled it with humor, has supplied it with brass bands and flags and letters from home and photographs of the explorers' children on the croquet lawns of Massachusetts?with everything except, by some unaccountable omission, 'love interest'? has in brief, found it snow...
...Nature. As in many another industry, time was when Nature had a monopoly on nitrates, which meant that Chile had a monopoly. For practically all the world's natural nitrate comes from a certain desolate plateau high up in the Andes in northern Chile, a 450-mi. stretch utterly barren of water and vegetation.* But since the War, synthetic nitrogen has been steadily rolling up tonnage, while Chilean nitrate has remained almost stationary. Thus, in the "Fertilizer Year" (which begins June 1) of 1927-1928, synthetic production of pure nitrogen was 1,267,000 metric tons, Chilean...
...prepare for a mock engagement between the Fleet's light forces and its "backbone." Meantime, having sounded their little salute guns, the Saratoga and Lexington turned westward, into the wind. The Salt Lake City turned with them so that she ran between. On the 2½-acre plateau decks of the two huge mother ships waited 150 airplanes, with all motors thundering, all propellers whirring brightly in the sun, mechanics in varicolored costumes moving among them in the artificial gale their blades created, to make final meticulous adjustments. In "sky forward" (crow's nest) of the Lexington...
Admiral Byrd, whose better equipped expedition did more thorough and extensive work, similarly named new localities?Marie Byrd Land (after his wife), Rockefeller Mts., Charles Bob Mts. His flight over the South Polar Plateau added very little more to the knowledge of the plateau itself than Amundsen and Scott, afoot, recorded the antarctic "summer" of 1911-12. However, he could see the real lay of the Queen Maude Range, of which the Charles Bob Mts. are an extension. Geologist Laurence McKinley Gould, on a 1,500-mi. sledge and ski trip over the Ross Shelf ice to the foot...
Fascinatingly hidden beneath the ocean's surfaces are hills and dales, mountains, canyons, plateaus, plains. Many are known-Telegraph Plateau between Newfoundland and Ireland whereupon 14 of 21 North Atlantic cables lie, Fleming Deep (5½ mi. down) off Japan and the Philippines, Merriam Ridge off Chile and Hayes Peak off California (both nearly 2 mi. high). Last week came news of another peak, 1½ mi. high, discovered 300 miles northwest of Hawaii by the nonmagnetic brigantine Carnegie shortly before she exploded in the Samoan Islands (TIME, Dec. 9). Name of the new peak is to be, unless...