Word: polarizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only polar region in the U. S. In the basin of the Yukon it is warm. There are from 70 to 100 days in the growing season. But over the mountains to the north there are rarely more than 40 days in the year in which there is no killing frost. Not only is it a polar land, it is almost a desert as well. It has less than ten inches of rainfall a year?about the same amount as Arizona or Nevada. There are no trees, only a very little stunted vegetation...
Heinan's Reply. Heinan made a strong rejoinder to Editor Howe. The Shenandoah will be in commission in April. If Great Britain or any other Power threatens to forestall the U. S. in a voyage of discovery to the Polar areas this Summer, the German pilot is prepared to make an immediate dash to the Pole, not by way of Alaska- where mooring masts and other equipment have to be carefully prepared- but in a five-day non-stop flight of 6,000 miles from Lakehurst straight to the Pole and back. And this at 24 hours' notice...
...abandonment of plans for a polar flight by the Shenandoah has considerably dampened immediate popular interest in aviation. On the other hand the significance of the whole problem of aircraft development becomes increasingly important in view of the threatened competition in air armaments between France and Great Britain. With the future progress of aircraft, it seems, will be linked the most significant of military and commercial relations. Certainly no man in the United States is better fitted to judge of the nature of that development than Major-General Patrick, Chief of the Army Air Service, who lectures at the Union...
Representative John Jacob Rogers canvassed Congressmen. He despaired of support. The Polar adventure seemed doomed...
...this aerial activity has disheartened Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the apostle of the "friendly Arctic." Polar exploration is not what it used to be, he laments, and he is going to quit. Modern inventions, safety and comfort have lessened the joy of the venturesome explorer and it is now a humdrum sort of job. Stefansson believes the Shenandoah will attain her goal without mishap...