Word: thule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...village must have been occupied for 2,000 years. The rows of houses had apparently moved downward as the level of the sea fell, and the rate of change of sea level is fairly well known. In the lowest house sites, Dorset relics are mixed with those of Thule Eskimos, who must have eventually taken over. At the other end of the time scale, the diggers found dim traces of an even earlier people. Apparently the forbidding Arctic has a long human history...
...simply chatty anecdotes. An example of the latter came recently from Lieut. Curtis R. Ehlert of the Air Force, who wrote: "I realize you are aware of your worldwide readership, but in case your records don't show it, you can place a pin in the map near Thule, Greenland, on the icecap." Lieut. Ehlert explained how this pinpoint got there: "My pilot and I are a crew for an F94 Starfire interceptor stationed at Thule. We were going through the final test of our survival training by living for two days in a snow and ice shelter that...
...regular California-Europe flight distance, the four-engine plane, with 13 crewmen and 22 passengers aboard, was going to fly where no commercial carrier had ever flown. That afternoon the plane stopped at Edmonton, Alta. After touching down early next morning at the big U.S. Air Force base at Thule, Greenland-a scant 900 miles from the North Pole-the plane was soon airborne again, driven toward Denmark by 95-m.p.h. tail winds. Scandinavian's route-blazing flight ended at Copenhagen, after a flying time of 23 hrs. 34 min. (plus stopovers of 4 hrs. 43 min.) from...
...Pole expedition" but shows the remnants of a depot placed ten years later by the Danish explorer (my father-in-law), the late Admiral Godfred Hansen. The depot was placed in 1919. . . approximately 700 feet north of Peary's old post . . . and was laid out by the third Thule expedition as fourrage for Roald Amundsen in case he should succeed in flying over the North Pole from his expedition . . . along the Asiatic coast...
...Workers recruited in the U.S. and taken to Greenland to build the base at Thule (on the island's far northwestern rim, some 650 miles above the Arctic Circle) were paid $3,000,000 in wages before they reached the site...