Word: arctic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German advices, his airplane, unknown to him, is a defective second-hand machine, and fears are felt for his safety. The Junker Airplane Company, is bringing two planes to Spitzbergen for rescue work, and unless the explorer is heard from within a reasonable time, they will circle the Arctic Zone in the direction of the Pole, scanning the vast ice pack for trace of the aviator, who, with his pilot, has supplies for but 24 hours...
Vilhjalmur Stefansson: "I have been vindicated by the Canadian Government of the charge that I autocratically endangered the lives of my men in my Arctic Expedition...
Divorced: Dr. Frederick A. Cook, Arctic explorer and oil promoter, by Mrs. Cook, at Fort Worth, Texas...
Already, the fantastic imaginings of Jules Verne have been largely realized. Fis schedule of "Around the world in eighty days" has been reduced by more than half; and it only remains for an arctic explorer to reach the North Pole, run around it in a few seconds and break another world's record. But the plan of an arctic route from continent to continent should open up sound commercial possibilities. Before long plans for the "upper passage" should be accomplished...
During the War he developed the apparatus used by the United States Navy for submarine detection, and invented the hydrophone, an instrument used for taking soundings in navigation. More recently he designed the wireless equipment of the Bowdoin, the ship in which MacMillan explored the Arctic Regions...