Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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REPORT OF THE COMPANY-Dudley Vaill Talcott-Random House ($3.75). A U.S. sculptor tells, in an easy conversational manner, how he bought a Norwegian sealing vessel, married the captain's daughter, conducted wealthy U. S. sportsmen on hunting and fishing expeditions in the Arctic...
...heroic and extraordinary achievements in Arctic and Antarctic exploration 1925-26," President Roosevelt presented Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth with the National Geographic Society's 13th Hubbard Medal. Introduced at his lecture following the presentation as "a world discoverer who exemplifies the finest traditions of science, modesty, resource and valor," Explorer Ellsworth trumpeted: "The most important incident of my trip across Antarctica [TIME, Jan. 27] was the raising of the Stars & Stripes in that territory of 350,000 square miles of vast untamed land, the last unclaimed territory on earth...
...captain of a little freighter, Commander Sir Edgar Britten, Cunard White Star's commodore and commander of the Queen Mary, was locked in the Arctic ice near Archangel for five months. To him the next 20 minutes seemed as long. Could the eight tugs get Queen Mary off? Gaping crowds on shore stood only 20 feet from her stern, watched an epic feat of British seamanship...
...Seattle last week, having traveled southward 2,000 miles by plane, another 1,000 miles by ship, was Boris Magids, a stocky, bright-eyed little Jew who is "farthest north" in the chain-store business. His half dozen stores are spotted along 1,000 miles of the Arctic Ocean on Alaska's Kotzebue Sound in Eskimo villages with such sub-zero names as Deering, Keewalik, Shishmaref, Kobuk. Gross libel was the press report that his Seattle visit was the first time he had been "outside" in 27 years. Rated one of the Arctic's shrewdest judges...
Trader Magids has been driving an honest Arctic bargain for 20 years. It has to be honest, he explains, because Eskimos are not concerned with how far they go for their shopping. A small slip is likely to drive away a customer who came 400 miles by dog team, make him go 500 miles the next time to trade with someone else. No cash register affair, honesty in the Magids chain is a complicated matter involving as much as 15 years of credit. The Eskimos and, in Candle, the white residents bring in furs, gold, seal oil and reindeer meat...