Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co. (Incorporated in West Virginia, main office in San Francisco, chief mines in the "Juneau Gold Belt," Alaska. No dividend since 1897)'. $1,159,050 as against...
...rough wall of wind frescoed with whorls of fog effectively blocked Bering Strait, between Alaska and Siberia, to flyers last week. Nor could boats cross under the wall, for clumps of ice, like polar lizards, skittered through from the Arctic Ocean southward. Yet it was becoming increasingly urgent that men get from the American to the Siberian side. Carl Ben Eielson was lost somewhere over there, with his mechanic Earl Borland. They had been missing since a flight Nov. 9. If living, their provisions, doled sparingly to each other, would have lasted two months...
...knew Arctic flying better than any other man.* When the U. S. Army flyers made the first air penetration of Alaska (1920)†, he was teaching at Fairbanks High School. Norwegian-blooded, born in North Dakota, school work irked him. He became a flyer...
...Later the Army world flyers flew along southern Alaska and the Aleutian Islands (westward, 1924), the Russian disguised bomber Land of the Soviets along the same route (eastward, 1929), Parker Dresser Cramer from New York to Nome (1929), Ross G. Hoyt from New York to Nome to British Columbia where he crashed...
...Spitsbergen, across converging lines of longitude, through shifting fields of terrestrial magnetism-at 135 m.p.h. The late Roald Amundsen, with Lincoln Ellsworth and Umberto Nobile, beat them to the first Arctic air crossing by sailing the semirigid dirigible Norge from Spitsbergen westward across the North Pole to Nome, Alaska. Amundsen was killed two years ago trying to find hapless Umberto Nobile who had been wrecked with his Pole visiting semirigid Italia. Wilkins is now at Antarctica making occasional exploratory flights from Deception Island. Eielson was with him there last year, would have returned except that he had "to make some...