Word: poled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Work, No Pay. In Denver, a prowler climbed a pole, jumped to a third-floor window, broke through a screen into an elevator shaft, leaped to a cable, swung over and kicked open a door to a corridor, climbed through, tried to cut a hole in the floor, finally tired of it all and left lootless...
Last week's total eclipse, the first seen in the U.S. since 1932, was one of a series that began near the North Pole in 1639 and is moving south. Some scientists hope to observe the next eclipse (June 30, 1954) from stratospheric rocket ships...
...being menaced by a ten-foot hypo needle. One above-average recording of Army life "off limits" was T-4 George R. Imhof's Leaving Fast-a harassed G.I. taking hasty leave of two dingy girls in a dingy back room (see cut). At the opposite pole of graphic imagery: Corporal Neil D. Schworm Jr.'s Corpse in the Moonlight, a gouache fantasy featuring a robed skeleton floating high over a toylike country church...
...next flight was to the North Magnetic Pole, believed to be somewhere in the Boothia Peninsula of far northern Canada. They located it 200 to 300 miles north-northwest of where it is now shown on maps...
...full findings of the flight were not disclosed. The accurate pinpointing of the Magnetic Pole would aid navigation considerably over the top of the world...