Word: poled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sense of direction was aroused to a small degree by a statement which appeared in TIME (Nov. 4) concerning the "Perambulating Pole." According to TIME, Roald Amundsen found the magnetic pole slightly northwest of where Sir James Ross had made the first reliable fix. Yet TIME plots Amundsen's fixing one degree, 15 minutes east of Ross's!! Apparently TIME is perambulating a bit itself...
...late. The 24 cases there had also been handed over. Dr. Zaleski sped to the bank. Ah, the cases were there. But the bank bluntly refused to give them up except jointly to the two men who had deposited them, Dr. Zaleski and his colleague, Jozef Polkowski, a London Pole...
Recently cheery, white-haired Russell Madill, 49, chief of the Magnetic Division of the Dominion Observatory at Ottawa, announced that the pole was some 200 miles north and 75 miles east of its previously announced location. He confirmed the observation of the navigator on the U.S. B-29 Pacusan Dreamboat, who two weeks earlier had found the pole where it was not supposed to be. The navigator's report neither surprised nor vexed Madill, who has mothered the wandering pole for 25 years...
...knows why the pole shifts. No one even knows why the earth is a magnet. Madill has a theory that the pole moves in an irregular orbit, completing its slow cycle in a matter of centuries. He keeps watch on its movements, working through a corps of super-tough field men. They have to be tough: observations in comfortable latitudes are helpful but not sufficient. Pole spotters have to travel into the Arctic where the pole hides out. This year three Madillmen surrounded the pole, set up delicate instruments to chart its lines of magnetic force...
Every year Arctic Canada becomes more important as a potential route for airplanes, which have to fall back on compass navigation when radio and ground contact fails them. Next season, Madill has orders to chart the position of the pole even more exactly. He may get help from the U.S. Army, which has more than a weather eye on its "Northern Frontier...