Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shut down upon the ether of northern Alaska after a last "All's well" from the monoplane Alaskan as she winged away from Fairbanks on her third flight from there to Point Barrow, continued all last week, stretching into nine days. Major Lanphier, second-in-command of the Detroit Arctic Expedition, rushed repairs on the big trimotored biplane Detroiter. He took the air in search of the missing plane but was soon forced back by motor trouble. His last orders from Captain Wilkins had been to pick up and move their base from Fairbanks to Barrow as soon as possible...
Nine days was a long time for two men and an airplane to be missing in the Arctic, but there were comforting considerations. Wilkins had had a bad wrist and would not, in all likelihood, have attempted to penetrate the Polar Basin contrary to his announced plan. "Sandy" Smith, chief of the overland party of the expedition, having reached the seacoast on his way to Barrow, flashed word that Eskimos at Thetis Island, 100 mi. southeast of Barrow had seen the Alaskan pass over, presumably on its most recent trip...
Wilkins. Fairbanks, Alaska, kept its radio ear cocked. But after the message (TIME, April 12) saying that Captain Wilkins and Pilot Eielson had brought their freight-laden monoplane Alaskan safely to earth 560 miles northward at Point Barrow, the Arctic air yielded no more news of them...
POPE TELLS PLANS FOR HIS ARCTIC TRIP...
...then was the Dominus Apostolicus setting out for the Arctic? He was not, of course, setting out at all! The indiscreet headline writer had created a false impression with regard to the Summus Pontifex by neglecting to make clear that the story run beneath his headline was about R. A. Pope, a minor explorer...