Word: snowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is also the possibility of using streets not completely within the University's bounds. Alternate-side alternate-night parking has long been advocated as a partial solution of the no-parking-on-the-streets-at-night problem, for it would allow for street cleaning and snow removal, two of the reasons the present no-parking ordinance is in effect...
...principle of the Army's Greenland Research Program, with which Philippe has been working since 1953, is to use what it finds on the icecap. What it finds is snow, which gradually turns into solid ice about 15 ft. below the surface. Treated properly, both snow and ice are useful structural materials, easy to excavate and excellent insulators. They melt when exposed to heat, and deform slowly from their own weight, but the engineers have learned to minimize these failings...
...pronunciation: Tooley). Around it is nothing but a featureless white plain, and Fist Clench itself looks like almost nothing. Only low chimney tops show above the snow...
Fist Clench was "built" by digging trenches with a Peters plow-a 13-ton, Swiss-built monster that chews up ice and snow and blows it over its shoulder. Twenty-four insulated Jamesway Huts. 20 ft. wide and 40 ft. long, were set up in the trenches. Then the trenches were roofed with timber trusses and covered deep with snow. The 60 scientists and military men who spend the winter at Fist Clench will have a!1 reasonable comforts, and they will hardly feel it when the 100-m.p.h. gales start blowing overhead...
...dangerous, and weather on the icecap is often too rough for surface transport. So the engineers are putting roads under the ice too. With a Peters plow they dig a long trench 20 ft. deep. They roof it temporarily with curved, corrugated sheet metal, and 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...