Word: polarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gilbert Co. ("Gilbert Toys Make Happy Boys"; also "Polar Club" fans, electric heaters, hair-dryers): $450,000 as against...
...shows the outlines and land regions of the antarctic continent as they were known last week. It is an extension of the map recently made by the American Geographical Society (John Huston Finley, president, Isaiah Bowman, director), most assiduous recorder of polar explorations...
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...
...great again as that of the U. S. Ages ago it had a mild climate, indicated by fossilized marine and land life. Apparently never connected with the other continents, it was never inhabited by humans. Its chief denizens nowadays are whales, seals, penguins, petrels. There are no south polar bears...
...experience and flying skill, but not in navigation, are Bernt Balchen, Commander Byrd's chief pilot in Antarctica and Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, both Norwegians. Last week Riiser-Larsen flew from the whaling ship Norvegia in Antarctic waters and took possession of newly discovered land for Norway across the polar continent from Byrd's quarters...