Word: polarity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cried London's Daily Mail: "What sterile, counting-machine mind decided that these chunks of climate must pay duty?" Said the Times: "If the taxation is for revenue, the interest of the Exchequer demands the utmost effort to stimulate trade with the Polar region . . ." An Evening News cartoon pictured ogre-like customs men waiting to pounce on returning travelers. The caption read: "Ready, men? Watch out for French air in the bicycle tires, Swiss mud on the ski boots, Italian sunburn, Continental elan...
...World War IIIand losing it. Bridges called on the U.S. to recognize that it is in a state of war with Russia without formally declaring its existence. Except for his all-out attack on the Administration and the wavering conduct of its foreign policy, it was the polar opposite to the Hoover-Taft position. His specific proposals: a break of diplomatic relations with Russia and her Communist satellites; a U.S.-supported invasion of the Chinese mainland by Chiang Kaishek; a sea and air war on the Chinese Reds by U.S. forces; full-scale industrial mobilization and round...
Most of the Arctic Ocean is covered with spongy, saltwater ice only about ten feet thick-too thin to support anything more weighty than a family of iglooed Eskimos. Last week the Air Force reported that many hundred miles from land, aircraft crews of its weather service on polar flights had discovered ice islands with more important possibilities. Pictures of one of them were shown to an Alaskan Science Conference at Washington. The ice island is some 35 miles long and 18 miles wide; some parts rise 90 ft. above the frozen ocean. If it is really floating...
...public knows, no one has yet landed on any of the ice islands. Even their ownership is not settled. The U.S. maintains that land (even floating "land," presumably) belongs to the nation that discovers and occupies it first. But for polar regions the U.S.S.R. supports the "sector principle": that everything north of its territory is its property. At least one of the ice islands lies well beyond the pole in the Soviet-claimed "sector...
...scolded 166,000,000 Russians to equip the Soviet Union with fairly adequate heavy industry, to collectivize Russian farms, to build an army, to fulfill successive Five Year Plans. The cost of these successes has been measured in the execution of thousands, and the exile to Siberia and the Polar North of hundreds of thousands who resisted his driving and scolding...