Word: thule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Base. During the coming winter, the first under-ice base will get a thorough test. Named "Fist Clench" (officially Site 2), it is high on the icecap, 200 miles east of the Air Force base at Thule...
...cover the metal with snow. After the snow has had a few days to pack and harden, the metal can be removed, leaving a firm arch of snow like the roof of an Eskimo's igloo. One hundred miles of under-ice highway are now under construction between Thule and Fist Clench, and no blizzard that blows will stop the trucks that...
...Warehouse. Even more ambitious is a chamber 65 ft. square and 25 ft. high that the engineers have dug with coal-mining machinery in the face of a glacier near Thule. It is 150 ft. from the top of the ice and 500 ft. back from the face, and it would make a fine warehouse, invisible from above and with built-in refrigeration. The engineers figure that much bigger chambers can be dug without danger of the roof caving in. What they do not know so far is how long their ice structures will last. Ice behaves in some ways...
...Greenland. Even before the oilmen could place orders, the U.S. Defense Department asked De Long to use the same principle for a 1,000-ft. dock to help speed its Thule. Greenland airbase. Standard construction methods would have taken two years. By prefabricating, De Long cut the total time to six months. Since then, the Defense Department has ordered 17 more docks worth $16 million, rushed two to replace a wood pier that burned at Whittier, Alaska, threatening military supply lines, two more to New port News, Va., when it turned out that no docks were big enough...
...mile Ledo Road ("Pick's Pike") through Burma, later (1946) began construction of a dam network project (the Pick-Sloan plan) to tame the rambunctious Missouri River, directed (1949) "Operation Snowbound" to relieve storm-clogged Northern states, while head of Army Engineers built the Air Force base at Thule, Greenland; in Washington...