Word: polarize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon after the War the vast waters lying between the South Polar ice barrier, Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope threatened to go the way of the Arctic whaling grounds. Again Captain Larsen set out to find more whales. This time he went through the ice pack into the Ross Sea* where no explorer had been for a decade. Thence he pounded his way into the Bay of Whales where six years later Richard Evelyn Byrd established a base at Little America. Once again Captain Larsen made whaling history, by arriving on a Christmas Eve. Four days later...
Little America, Antarctica, March 27 (Via MacKay Radio to the United Press)--Alone in the windswept fastnesses of the South Polar regions, Rear-Admiral Richard E. Byrd prepared today to spend the next six or seven months in a tiny hut 123 miles south of Little America...
...must to all men, Death came last week to Walter Wellman, 75, oldtime Polar explorer, who tried to fly the Atlantic when Charles Lindbergh was eight years...
...will give tone signals for ten minutes every hour. Ordinarily this apparatus is used for short distances only, but it is hoped that the sound may be deflected by certain strata in the high atmosphere and thus by following a series of taugents to the globe, reach the south polar region. If the expedition succeeds in picking up these signals it is possible that direct communication by voice may be established for a short period each day. For the present, aerial broadcasts will be sent to Buenos and relayed to New York...
...Harvard short wave radio station WIDMW will handle messages relating to the geophysical explorations of the polar expedition. Messages will be sent from Little America to Buenos Aires and relayed to the Harvard station...