Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...masses before it took place, how much agony followed it. His last chapters become a cumulative catalog of miseries as he writes of the civil war, when Reds fought Whites on a great fluctuating battle-line that stretched from the Baltic to the Pacific, from the Arctic Circle to the Black Sea, while famine and typhus were triumphing behind the lines. Unpopular though the Bolsheviks undoubtedly were in many sections, they could always count on more support among the common people than the Whites, who were everywhere identified with a return of the monarchy. "The alternative to Bolshevism...
Measles, to Eskimos a strange and fatal disease, killed 50% of the natives at Point Barrow, on Alaska's Arctic Ocean edge 30 years ago. Last week influenza demonstrated that the years of white men's invasion have not inured Eskimos to white men's epidemics. Three hundred Eskimos at Point Barrow, 200 at Wainwright, were abed with influenza last week. Thirteen of the Point Barrow victims were dead. While Eskimo boys chopped graves in the frozen Point Barrow cemetery, the 13 lay in the rear end of the Presbyterian church. They had coffins. But Dr. Henry...
Into Churchill, Man., at sunset one evening, strode a young (24) adventurer named Dave Irwin. Blond, husky Adventurer Irwin was finishing a 2,600-mi. dog-team trip from Aklavik, on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. In 1931 he set out from Alaska to help Herdsman Andy Bahr drive 3.000 reindeer across Northern Alaska and the Mackenzie River Delta to Canada (TIME, Jan. 7).* Quarreling with other drivers two years ago, he packed up a sledge, mushed off eastward alone. By dint of catching fish bare-handed to feed himself and his dogs, he reached the North Magnetic Pole...
...about them was that they were views of a land almost unknown to the U. S.-Iceland. Enthusiastically Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson wrote a long foreword for the catalog and elaborate footnotes to explain how well Artist Emile Walters had caught the brilliance, clarity and absence of perspective in the Arctic landscape...
Marriage Revealed. Lieutenant Com-mander Donald Baxter MacMillan, 60, Arctic explorer, veteran of 16 expeditions, including Admiral Peary's to the North Pole 27 years ago; and Miriam Look, his secretary; according to his announcement "in February and near St. Augustine...