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...military techniques are where you find them. Last week Drs. M. Ewing and Frank Press, Columbia geophysicists, told how they discovered a practical method of measuring from an airplane the thickness of Arctic ice. They started by studying Krakatoa Volcano, near Java, which had its most famous explosion almost 70 years...
Since the first atomic bomb exploded at Alamogordo in 1945, Washington and Ottawa have been hunting diligently for new uranium deposits. Reason: capacity of Canada's only uranium-producing mine, at Great Bear Lake on the edge of the Arctic Circle, is far short of U.S. needs, and overseas sources might be cut off by submarines in wartime. Last week in Toronto, William J. Bennett, boss of Canada's uranium monopoly, announced that Canada's second major mine would go into production, probably next year, at Beaver-lodge Lake in northwestern Saskatchewan. He fixed its initial production...
Most of the Arctic Ocean is covered with spongy, saltwater ice only about ten feet thick-too thin to support anything more weighty than a family of iglooed Eskimos. Last week the Air Force reported that many hundred miles from land, aircraft crews of its weather service on polar flights had discovered ice islands with more important possibilities. Pictures of one of them were shown to an Alaskan Science Conference at Washington. The ice island is some 35 miles long and 18 miles wide; some parts rise 90 ft. above the frozen ocean. If it is really floating...
...airplanes to land upon. If not, their surfaces can probably be planed into landing strips by bulldozers parachuted from aircraft. An airfield near the pole would be useful as a weather station, an emergency landing field, a site for radar or a center for air rescues in the remote Arctic. In the back of military minds was the possibility of making the islands into advanced bomber bases...
...first large mass of cold air moved southward from the Arctic over Labrader down to Maine in the wake of last Monday's storm, forming a high pressure zone in the northeastern U.S. At the same time, a second cold air mass flowed down from north central Canada to form a cold front extending along the Appalachian Mountains down to Georgia...