Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made false and misleading statements to investigating committees to the prejudice of aviation, that the Air Service is controlled by non-flying officers, that many flyers have been killed because they were forced to use old machines, that the MacMillan expedition was equipped with machines not suited for Arctic use, that, in general, the military and naval Aviation Services are in poor condition...
...Scotland (1411), conducted its annual election of a Lord Rector with the usual horseplay. As at Glasgow the week before (TIME, Nov. 2), eggs flew and smelled, herrings smelled and flew, tomatoes smelled and smelled and smashed, and cold water cascaded from the galleries of the Student Union. Arctic Explorer Dr. Fridtiof Nansen of Norway was elected with 216 votes against 160 for Novelist John Galsworthy...
...some weeks before his death and it had been returned, and that when the Post got it again some paragraphs had been deleted. This view seemed to be supported when Mrs. Lansdowne admitted that she had taken out some paragraphs concerning the possibility of using the Shenandoah in the Arctic before forwarding the article for publication...
Commander MacMillan reiterated his belief that heaver-than-air machines are impracticable for Polar flying. He gave the Navy men and planes their due but insisted that, until the dirigible is proven a contender, "the dog is still king of the Arctic...
Such a severe summer had not been seen in the Arctic within the memories of the oldest Eskimos...