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...surface and picture it as roughly spherical.* At night the Layer shrinks comparatively close to Earth; by day, as the Sun puts in its effect, it recedes. But this theory of diurnal, tide-like pulsation has not explained all radio reactions against the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer. A Navy physicist Polar-yearing at Fairbanks, Alaska, last week offered a new explanation...
...Among other supernal levels is one at 800,000 miles, discovered in 1928 by Norway's Carl Mulertz Stormer. Here begin to form Polar auroras from solar electrons projected 92 million miles...
...required some jubilation at Peary Lodge, Polar Year station midway up Greenland's west coast. University of Michigan & Pan American Airways maintain the post: 1) to cooperate with European agencies in studying world-wide weather conditions, 2) to determine whether the northern hemisphere is recovering from the last Ice Age or is beginning another Ice cycle, 3) to judge the wisdom of a northerly airplane service between the U. S. & Europe. University of Michigan's Ralph L. Belknap is in charge, with four able men helping. Feb. 3, according to a message relayed last week by wireless...
...least of the late Polar Explorer Fridtjof Nansen's services to mankind was his creation, as League of Nations Commissioner for Refugees after the War. of identification passports known as Nansen Certificates for unfortunates unable to get passports from any country. Recently a Nansen Certificate was issued in the name of Mr. & Mrs. Lubinsky, resident since 1929 on the Island of Prinkipo. Turkey...
...week Director Edmund Heller of Milwaukee's Washington Park Zoo was concerned about press reports of a bear-killing in his zoo. Experimenting with groups of animals in large open dens Director Heller had placed together a pair of black bears, a pair of grizzlies, a pair of polar bears and a pair of wolves. All were young. Frolicking in their pool one day, the polar bears playfully began ducking one of the black bears. They jumped upon it, held it under water, held it there so long that it died. The Associated Press reported that the polar bears...