Word: polarizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Company. Twenty-two passengers were aboard. Most active were Karl H. Von Wiegand. European director of William Randolph Hearst's Universal News service: Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Hearst-backed polar explorer; Lady Grace Drummond Hay, fastidious Hearst voyageuse; Robert Hartman, Hearst photographer; the U. S. Navy's Lieut.-Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, Hearst guest. Their duties were to report the popular and scientific details exclusively for Hearst and associated newspapers. Other passengers and the crew were forbidden to say a word or sell a picture until the Hearst group permitted them to do so. For exclusive news rights, Publisher Hearst...
...members of Commander Byrd's Antarctic expedition. The program to be broadcast consists of Harvard songs by the Harvard quartette, assisted by Madame Louise Homer, soloist, Harvard news, and football songs. Personal messages from University officials will also be included in this novel broadcast to the South Polar region...
...Polar Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, lecturing at Oxford University, said: "The Far North is the greatest Hero Factory in the world...
Last week an aspirant to the French Academy of Sciences, Dr. H. Barjot, printed in Paris his suggestion to the Academy of a temperature-differential power plant the inverse of Academician Claude's. Dr. Barjot would generate his power in Polar regions where water under the ice is 32° F. (freezing) or warmer and the air above 20° below zero or colder. He would pump sub-ice water into a surface tank partially filled with butane or some other hydrocarbon of low vaporization point. In the tank the ice water would freeze and release it? comparative heat...
With a submarine Sir Hubert* could collect data on North Polar temperature, force and direction of ocean currents, condition and drift of ice-factors important to knowledge of Earth's weather...