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...North Polar regions," says Andrews, "are problems of a different nature. . . . We have a great deal to learn about weather in the Arctic regions, the movement of ice, what lies at the bottom of the Arctic seas. . . . Today that region means rapid transport, strategic air bases, weather stations. . . . The Arctic will soon become a Broadway for intercontinental transport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Worlds to Conquer | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

...Navy's aims are partly scientific but mainly-and frankly-military: 1) to train personnel and test equipment in frigid zones (away from the North Polar region where the Russian bear crouches); 2) to develop techniques for operating bases under arctic conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Last Continent | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...first U.N. meeting at San Francisco. As the delegates gathered in the old New York City World's Fair Building at Flushing Meadows, they beheld another omen. Dominating the vast, greenish Assembly Hall was an oddly contorted map of the world (in cartographer's lingo: "a north polar azimuthal equidistant projection") which made the U.S. and Canada look relatively normal while the rest of the troubled planet was either upside down or misshapen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Calculated Conciliation | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...outside Honolulu with the Army's Hickam Field, gave the Dreamboat 13,500 feet. It took about half that. Actually, the Army had little hope of bettering the Turtle's mark, trumpeted that its $3,000,000 flight over the Pole to Cairo would test performance in polar regions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Over the Top | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

...epidemic of the dread polar paralysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Time Current Affair Test, Oct. 14, 1946 | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

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