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...Victor Emmanuel: "With a feeling of satisfaction at the connection of one of my own countrymen with the exploit, I desire to offer to Your Majesty my congratulations on the important participation in the Amundsen expedition to the North Pole by an Italian airship and the son of Italy who piloted it. To Commander Nobile's scientific skill is doubtless due, in large measure, the success of this hazardous and historic undertaking...
Seventeen fur-bundled men and a fox terrier had passed in an airship completely up and over the Earth's icy pate, parting that wilderness as a comb might part the unexplored thatch of a wild man from Borneo. From Spitzbergen in Barent's Sea via the North Pole and the Pole of Inaccessibility, to Point Barrow, Alaska, they had peered out of their gondola for new lands, and in a strip of white waste 2,000 miles long by 10 to 100 wide, had spied none. They had seen seals, roaming polar bears, their own flags (Italian...
Blessed by the Pope, bidden adieu by Premier Mussolini as she sailed majestically forth on her polar flight, with one (or more) strokes of his pen, your Editor converts her [the Norge] from a "good airship" into a "BLUNT SILVERY CIGAR." [TIME, Apr. 19, SCIENCE...
...dismaying to the Anti-Nicotine League, your Editor is not yet done. Nay, far from it. For as she sails high above the sparkling Mediterranean, he must needs bring despair to peace advocates and consternation to those whose business is armaments, by a transformation no less astonishing. This innocent airship, which left the Ciampino Airdrome with all its young ideals unbesmirched, and is dragged over the Appian Way where Emperors marched in triumph, as a vicious "BLUNT CIGAR," he fiendishly converts into nothing less than a "LONG SILVER BULLET...
Amundsen. While their airship Norge gathered her strength at Leningrad for the hop from Europe to Spitzbergen, Explorers Amundsen and Ellsworth disembarked from their steamer in ice-choked Kings Bay and set about unloading a cargo of hydrogen gas, food, and other materials. A mooring mast was standing, and a hangar going up, to receive the Norge, which was expected very shortly with her crew of 16 men and one terrier-mascot...