Word: polarizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...welcome West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to the U.S. a fortnight ago, the State Department and the CAB had worked up a handsome present for Germany's reborn Lufthansa airline. In air-route negotiations the U.S. gave Lufthansa some prize routes, including a polar route from Germany to San Francisco or Los Angeles, a transatlantic route to Chicago, and one to Boston, New York and Philadelphia, then down to the Caribbean and South America. In return, U.S. air lines got routes to six German cities plus the privilege of picking up passengers to Scandinavia, the Near East, Africa...
...fact that the Lord never let me lack a little bread and a few drops of wine to celebrate the Mass. For me and a few companions in faith and misfortune, it was this alone which gave us the strength and warmth in those horrible polar nights...
...AMERICAN AIRWAYS is bidding for a polar route from the U.S. West Coast to Europe. Scandinavian Airlines System, which pioneered the run is booked to capacity for the summer. Pan Am has asked CAB's O.K. to fly one-stop from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle to London and Paris...
...expedition's radioed accounts of its adventures made front-page headlines in Buenos Aires. The Argentines take great pride in their antarctic expeditions, and in the nation's claim to a huge pie-slice of the wind-whipped south-polar wasteland...
Besides Great Britain, Argentina and Chile, four other nations-Australia, New Zealand, Norway and France-claim slices of the polar pie. The U.S. puts forth no claims of its own, and does not officially recognize those of other nations. Before World War II, the U.S. held to the doctrine -laid down in 1924 by Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes-that no nation could rightly claim sovereignty over an area that it could not effectively occupy...