Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lord of the drifting ice pack that crushed and sank his Soviet icebreaker Chelyuskin (TIME, Feb. 26, March 12), jungle-bearded Professor Otto Schmidt has somehow kept his crew alive, fed and sheltered for two months in the - 20°F wilderness of the Arctic Ocean north of Bering Strait, while a semicircle of rescuers hovered from Cape Van Karem, Siberia, to Alaska. Last month a rescue plane swooped onto the ice pack, loaded the Chelyuskin's ten women and two babies aboard, got back safely to Cape Wellen, Siberia. Since then the ice pack, twisted by Arctic currents...
...harpoons of Indians and Eskimos. On Pribilof only "bachelor seals" (males under seven years old) are killed. North Atlantic seals are fatter than those on Pribilof, are covered with coarse brown hair instead of fur, and lead a harder life. Each winter they swim 1,000 mi. into the Arctic, where they become food, fuel and clothing for Eskimos. Each spring they swim down to bear their young on the Labrador ice fields, be clubbed by Newfoundlanders, become soap, pocketbooks, slippers and knicknacks for citizens...
...film, as the title and the press blurbs indicate, is an attempt to record the social structure of savage arctic communities; coupled with this aim, as one expects, there is a human story, that of the life of Mala, chief hunter of one Eskimo village. The role of Mala is taken by Francis Lederer, while all the other parts, with the exception of a few Canadian police and sailors who enter the story briefly, are played by genuine Eskimos. Naturally, Mala's life is not a complicated one: he eats and sleeps and lies down with the ladies; and that...
...general, these cold waves are not due to the presence of icebergs as some people would have us believe. As a matter of fact, the arctic region does travel southward during the winter but this has very little part in producing these frigid temperatures we are experiencing. At a height of eight or nine miles above the surface of the earth the temperature is about thirty degrees below zero...
...that hardy, hairy crew who prowl for Soviet glory north of Russia's long Arctic coast line, hardiest and hairiest is jungle-bearded Otto Tulyevich Schmidt, chief editor of the Soviet Encyclopedia, professor of hydrology, chemistry and Arctic science. Two years ago the middle-aged professor led the icebreaker Sibirya-kov to a great Soviet feat: first navigation of the "northeast passage" from Archangel to Vladivostok in one year. Last August he tried it again with the icebreaker Chelyuskin, setting out this time from Murmansk, through the empty wastes of the Barents and Kara Seas. In September...