Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once and share supplies with stricken inhabitants, who by this time were huddled in rude barracks and eating in a community kitchen. A food-laden boat was hurrying up from Seattle. Alaska Steamship Co., aware that not more than two round trips could be made to Nome before the Arctic winter clamped down, cut rates on food and building material in half. Luckiest break for Nome, however, was a Lomen boat which had just come down the coast with a load of reindeer meat destined for Seattle...
...works are not well known to U. S. botanists. He is not listed in international botanical encyclopedias. But the Russians say he has developed a palatable blend of apple and cherry which is grown in Siberia, apricots that bloom on snow-covered trees just south of the Arctic Circle, a fruitless lemon tree whose branches yield lemon extract when pressed, frost-resisting grapes that flourish in Moscow and the Ural uplands. Undoubtedly he has produced fruits that yield more abundantly, stand shipment better and grow farther north than the older varieties. To bring out ever new mutations, he shocks with...
...thousands of armchair adventurers to whom the spell of the Arctic has been only a dream . . . this summer you can follow trails traveled before only by explorers. . . . Adventure, yet perfect safety...
Thus advertised the Alaska Line this summer, believing that many a tourist would like to see what few tourists have seen?the grinding, gleaming polar ice pack, which squeezes ships to death in winter, retreats north of the Arctic Circle in summer. For its pioneer cruise the company refitted its 3,868-ton icebreaker Victoria, booked passengers at $250 to $390. Last week, laden to the gunwales with 500 "arm-chair adventurers" and well started on its 7,000-mile, 26-day itinerary, the Victoria sailed from Nome for the dash to the ice pack's fringe. Later the ship...
...different was the cruise of the Soviet icebreaker Krassin, which steamed out of Leningrad last March, landed last week at Wrangel Island, a bleak scrap of land in the Arctic Ocean, 85 miles from the northeast coast of Siberia. There for five long years six Russian meteorologists, their families and assistants, 44 souls all told, have lived in isolation. Last year the freighter Chelyuskin, commanded by hardy, hairy Professor Otto Tulyevich Schmidt, was sent to take the colonists off their icebound island, deposit a new shift of weather observers. The ice pack closed in on the Chelyuskin in September, hugged...