Word: polarity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy published a new chart of Antarctica and the South Polar regions. The chart, based in part on the surveys of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, was the most complete ever issued for the area. Famous names packed away in this geographer's time capsule: Franklin D. Roosevelt Sea; Ickes Mountain; Cordell Hull Glacier. Eminent names: Rockefeller Plateau; Sulzberger Bay; Edsel Ford Ranges. Other names: Mobiloil Bay; Hearst Land; Paul Block...
...back in the U.S. things were just as baffling. At the Fleishhacker Zoo in San Francisco the keepers tried to force a mate on Bill, the polar bear. "She would fiddle with doilies, empty ash trays, wash out his briar pipe with soap and water. . . . When she started hanging his ties on a patented, nickel-plated cedarwood tie rack [with] an automatic clip-shift tie release," Bill murdered her. Author Thurber loves Bill...
...TIME should have more closely scrutinized misreports of Professor Wood's distances which agree with those of Reader Pubols. TIME correctly reported the main point: that polar routes will vastly expedite future air travel, vastly change old concepts of distance...
Swedish Snaps. The polar bears in Stockholm's Scansen have not had their full rations of raw meat for three years. Neither have the Swedes had their sill & snaps (herring & aquavit) as often as before. They have managed to maintain their national Thursday evening meal of pea soup and pancakes-and they have managed to stay...
...intensity of the German assault, with more than 100 planes, suggested that Germany was trying to snip the northern convoy route while round-the-clock daylight and the necessity of squeezing between polar ice drifts and the Norwegian coast make the slow convoys easy targets. To meet this threat, Russia's air force opened an offensive against airfields, repair shops and fuel depots tucked in the folds of conquered Norway, flanking the Arctic route. The Russians said that 40 Nazi planes were destroyed by the first sweep, while Soviet flyers kept on probing deep into fjords and valleys...