Word: polarizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since Admiral Robert Edwin Peary returned from his latest Arctic expedition in 1909, critics have disputed his claim to discovery of the North Pole. As late as 1929, long after Congress, the National Geographic Society and the encyclopedias had taken Peary's word for it, British Polar Scholar J. Gordon Hayes wrote a quarrelsome book to disprove that Peary had reached the Pole. Last week another critic...
Last March, when the John Biscoe was turned back by "impenetrable ice packs," the men resigned themselves to more work. To ease the strain, the British Broadcasting Corp. beamed special news and entertainment programs their way. The best news came from Sir Miles, who radioed that when the polar summer came in December, the John Biscoe would make another attempt to break through; if it failed, the expedition could expect a pickup by plane...
...this job, Canadian Car & Foundry Co., Ltd. was fitting a single-engined Norseman, with $20,000 worth of extras: hydraulically operated ski-wheels plus floats, spare fuel tank, radio altimeter and a special compass for polar navigation. At month's end the plane will be tested, then dismantled, crated and shipped to the Falkland Islands...
Died. Russell W. Porter, 77, famed optics expert and amateur astronomer, longtime (since 1928) art associate for the 200-inch Mt. Palomar telescope; of a heart attack; in Pasadena, Calif. A one-time explorer, Porter went with Peary on two polar expeditions, got interested in astronomy while marooned for two years in the Arctic. At the Mt. Palomar project, Porter's three-dimensional scale drawings were a vital factor in the design and construction of the big telescope...
From his headquarters at Edmonton, the commanding officer of the North West Air Command looks out and up into a vast aerial kingdom. His domain stretches 2,000 miles from Lake of the Woods to the Pacific, and 2,000 miles from the 49th Parallel to the polar seas. Prairie flying schools trained 131,553 flyers for World War II. Through North West's staging fields pass B-29s, shuttling between the U.S. and Alaska (half of the Edmonton field is set aside for Americans...