Word: polarizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seeking eagles' eggs will pause to secure his foothold in the last dizzy crotch beneath the eyrie, Commander MacMillan and his fellow polar pilgrims (TIME, June 22 et seq.) last week dropped anchor at their boatbase, Etah, Greenland, unloaded their three Navy seaplanes from the stout ship Peary, and set about clearing and leveling the one steep little beach their harbor offered for a takeoff. Five Eskimo families were found in the "village," the men of which assisted in the arduous task of building skidways and tumbling large rocks aside...
...While the ships were jammed, their crews ventured overside for snow-fights on the floes; for long walks, two miles over the groaning pan ice to the nearest open water. Animal life abounded on the frozen bay-flocks of little auks, eider duck, sportive seals and an occasional roving polar bear. One 800-lb. female bear swung up alongside the Bowdoin, was received with a bullet by MacMillan. Doctors of the party cut out the poisonous liver and brain, the empty stomach, for study...
...Meantime Lieut. Commander Richard E. Byrd, in charge of the Naval Air Unit assigned as coöperators to MacMillan's expedition to chart unknown polar regions for Science and the National Geographic Society (TIME, June 22 et seq.), reported his plans in detail to Washington...
...attempt flying to the Pole in heavier-than-air machines, Amundsen and Ellsworth said: "No." Asked if they were interested in the project of Herr Hugo Eckener of trying for the Pole in a super-zeppelin, said they: "Yes, in-deed!" Said Ellsworth, whose recent trip was his first polar experience: "I have only just begun . . . Any project for a polar flight by dirigible should plan its route for a flight clear across the Pole, terminating in Japan...
Planning. In Germany, plans were reported maturing for the construction of a polar zeppelin at the famed Friedrichshafen works. An estimated budget of seven million gold marks ($1,750,000) for the whole trip was to be sought by the International Arctic Research & Exploration Society in levies upon Labor organizations, community poll taxes, children's pfennigs, taxes on theatre and cinema tickets...