Word: polars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coming from behind in the closing stages of a see-saw contest, the Crimson nine nosed out the Bowdoin Polar Bears 6 to 5 last Saturday at Soldiers Field to give Harvard as record of two wins and one less for the summer...
...military brass hats were determined that never again would they be handicapped by having to capture bases in the midst of war. They wanted bases needed (for Navy and Air Forces) from Greenland to the South Seas. Although military airmen's eyes were fixed on the North Polar icecap as the likeliest no man's land of a future war (because the military strength of the world is in the northern hemisphere), most of the proposed new bases were much nearer the Equator...
...correct form ... is: "Here, Joe, old boy, is a 20, how's about fixing me up with a table and I don't want one in the Polar Region." (Editor's note: behind a pole.) If he says no, make it a50, as I happen to know the poor guy . . . has a tough struggle buying a home on Park Avenue...
First step in the Rickenbacker plan: a photographic and radar survey of the 5,000,000-square-mile Antarctic continent. From Tierra del Fuego, Tasmania and South Africa, long-range bombers would make three wide sweeps across the polar area, flying distances up to 6,500 miles. Weather, rescue and emergency air stations would be manned by "paratroopers" at Little America and other places. Next step: sites for base camps would be selected, and sleds, dogs and scientists would be flown in for further exploration of the more promising bomb targets. Suggested base for the bomb-carrying planes: New Zealand...
Captain Rickenbacker was not the first to eye the polar icecaps. Hiroshima's dust had hardly settled when English geophysicists suggested that polar icecaps might be blasted away entirely and, since the glaciers are tag-end relics of an all-but-ended ice age, the icecap would in all probability never reform. Some years ago an Australian geophysicist, Sir Edgeworth David, speculated on what would happen if the Antarctic icecap were dissolved. Sir Edgeworth concluded that the world's sea level would rise about 50 feet (others calculated as much as 100), inundating every seaport; climatic zones would...