Word: poled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McKinley National Park add up to one thing to Alaskans: preparation for a string of U.S. ballistic missile bases. Sited along the Alaska Railroad, such bases could launch intermediate-range missiles that would reach Russian bases on the eastern tip of Siberia, intercontinental missiles that could arc across the Pole to Moscow and beyond. The U.S. bases would have the advantage of North America's finest defilade if enemy missiles should fall short: the Alaska Range, topped by Mount McKinley...
...most dramatic episodes of man's exploration of his planet is shaping up this week in the hostile white heart of Antarctica. The British Commonwealth land expedition, led by 49-year-old Scientist-Explorer Vivian Ernest Fuchs, is battling toward the air-supplied U.S. base at the South Pole, and will probably get there in a few more days. Geologist Fuchs, lean veteran of 30 years of scientific exploration in Greenland, Africa and Antarctica, has announced that he intends to press on, in spite of the threat of worsening weather, and hopes to reach Scott Station on the Ross...
Solemn Warning. If Dr. Fuchs leaves the U.S. base and heads for Scott Station, he will be going against the advice of New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, who dashed to the Pole last fortnight after setting up a line of supply stations for the Fuchs expedition (TIME, Jan. 13). In a message to London that was made public unintentionally, Sir Edmund told Sir John Slessor, Fuchs's superior, that Fuchs should leave his equipment at the Pole and abandon further travel until next season; to do otherwise would risk the lives of all the men. When...
When all the painfully gathered data are digested and assembled, they will give a cross section of the Antarctic Continent, which is believed to be a great saucer of rock with a center near the Pole pressed down by the weight of ice that it carries. The thickness of the icecap will tell how much water is locked up in it, and how high the oceans stood during geological ages when the earth's Poles were ice-free. Perhaps the precious data brought back by the Fuchs expedition will explain the seams of coal in Antarctic mountains. Coal...
...Fuchs nears his final decision, every man at the polar base, both American and British, will be thinking of Fuchs's countryman, Captain Robert Scott, who got to the Pole in 1912. He started back toward the Ross Sea-the same terrible journey Fuchs will have to make, and at the same terrible season-and was frozen to death with the last of his five-man party, in a nine-day blizzard...