Word: poled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Railroads lost. Sir Felix Pole, general manager of the Great Western Railway Co., said that due to stagnation of industry, wage burdens imposed by the Government, and competition from busses, British railroads were losing about $5,000,000 each and every month...
...meantime the explorers will have set up the six houses now stored on the City of New York. Using this village as a base, they will push by airplanes and sledges toward the South Pole, establishing camps 100 miles apart. From these, they can fly over a considerable portion of Antarctica's 5.000,000 square miles, studying many a curious problem. Geologists will have hunted fossils. Astronomers will have gazed at the beautiful aurora australis, southern counterpart of the aurora borealis (northern lights). Cameramen Willard Vander Veer and Joseph T. Ruckner will have filmed scenes for a gripping...
...famed as an aviator, likes to be thought a scientist as well. Indignantly he battles the idea that his flight to Europe last year was any mere trans-Atlantic hop. Science was the lure which drew him to the attempt. And Science, pure Science, calls him to the South Pole and Antarctica. These are the scientific mysteries Explorer Byrd hopes to bring to light...
What causes the curious plateau of ice, two miles high and flat as a pancake, of which the South Pole appears to be the almost exact centre...
Capt. James Clark Ross: Six times he invaded the Arctic, then turned South and in 1842 gave his name to the Ross Sea. Fifty-eight years later, no explorer had penetrated closer to the South Pole...