Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day his wife and his brother-in-law, William Nadeau, drove to Seattle's Arctic Building to pick Representative Zioncheck up and take him to address a meeting of postal workers. Mr. Nadeau went up to the Congressman's office on the fifth floor, found him writing. "Come on, Marion, let's go," said his brother-in-law. Mr. Zioncheck rose, dodged suddenly into the next room, plunged through an open window. He struck the sidewalk head first, 50 ft. from the car where his wife was sitting. She screamed, fainted. On the dead...
President McDonald concentrated on short-wave sending and receiving sets. He took with him, on the MacMillan expedition of 1923, the first short-wave set ever operated in the Arctic. On big home sets Zenith's earnings grew from $121,000 in 1925 to $1,109,000 in 1929. When grief overtook the radio business in 1929, Zenith fell with saving promptness into the pattern of retrenchment. A new midget radio was developed for the low-price market, the cabinet division was closed down, and President McDonald slugged its overhead. By the time the first light of Recovery...
...from the misty fjord of Bergen, Norway, one morning last week climbed a trimotored Junkers seaplane. For some 275 miles it buzzed north along the ragged Scandinavian coast to Nidaros (Trondhjem), then on for 300 miles across the Arctic Circle to Bodo, finally another 425 miles past Narvik and Tromso to the famed town of Hammerfest, northernmost port in the world, where it sliced into the harbor at 5:15. Thus, in the first trip of a daily service that will last until autumn, did Norwegian Aero Transport Co. inaugurate the world's most northerly airline. Cost of ticket...
...frozen Arctic outpost is Hammerfest, but a thriving fishing village of 3,300 persons. Because the Gulf Stream curls across the Atlantic to flick the top tip of Scandinavia, Hammerfest's temperature is warm in summer, rarely gets below freezing even in midwinter, when there is no sun for nearly three months. In the summer, when the sun never sets from May 13 to July 29, remaining visible for 18 hours daily until autumn, there is a busy trade in fish, reindeer, eiderdown, fox pelts, whale oil. Occasionally a cruise ship on the way to bleak North Cape...
Agent Zherdiev discovered enough material for a season of Grand Guignol. Crazy Governor Semenchuk and his sadistic wife had kept the entire colony in terror through two Arctic winters. Semenchuk indulged in long drunken orgies with a thick-headed sledge driver named Startzev, raped Eskimo girls, sent indignant Dr. Wulfson off on a long sledge expedition, sent Startzev after him to kill him, then tried to poison Startzev. The widow Wulf-son managed to administer a life-saving antidote to Startzev. Mrs. Semenchuk whipped Eskimo men, who were first forbidden to fish, then denied use of the Island...