Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge decided that all plans for the Shenandoah's voyage of Arctic discovery should be dropped until the Congress agrees to make a specific appropriation (variously figured...
Meanwhile, France, Germany, Russia were reported to be rushing expeditions to capture the Arctic empire. And Lieut. Ralph E. Davison prepared to accompany Norwegian Amundsen, King Haakon...
...this aerial activity has disheartened Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the apostle of the "friendly Arctic." Polar exploration is not what it used to be, he laments, and he is going to quit. Modern inventions, safety and comfort have lessened the joy of the venturesome explorer and it is now a humdrum sort of job. Stefansson believes the Shenandoah will attain her goal without mishap...
...From the Arctic, by radio, the President received the following message: "Members of MacMillan expedition in northern Greenland deeply appreciative of your holiday greetings and wishes for New Year. All's well on the Bowdoin in the middle of the long Arctic night...
...which would be pushed on top of an ice floe. He intended to freeze the boat into the ice pack on the east coast of Greenland, and to drift across the pole. He carried out his ideas and after a year and a half, far north of the Arctic Circle, he concluded that he would miss the pole, and consequently, on foot with a few followers, he left the boat and set out, across the ice for the pole. He did not reach it, but came much nearer than any man had done before. It was a marvelous exhibition...