Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motorcycle policeman of Westchester County, N. Y. was surprised last week to behold an elderly gentleman kneeling in a path through some woods near Scarsdale peering skywards through binoculars. The gentleman explained that he was P. L. Hudson of Brooklyn, ornithologist; that that bird up yonder was an arctic owl in full winter plumage; that winter would come soon...
...last week, after Sir George Hubert Wilkins and his Arctic exploring submarine Nautilus had for six days ceased communication with anxious radio stations, his pretty wife exclaimed in London: "I have a hunch tonight will bring good news...
...crushed the runners atop the Nautilus, which were to enable her to slide against the underside of ice fields. She sprang two leaks, became miserably dank within. The propeller edges became saw-toothed and bent, grinding against small ice. But at last the Nautilus emerged from the ice-mashed Arctic and Sir Hubert radioed the world that he was all right...
Intercontinental. The Gronland-Wal with Captain Wolfgang von Gronau and three companions reached Chicago, its goal from Germany via the Arctic...
...Eskimos, the Lindberghs headed south to Nome. Mrs. Lindbergh radioed ahead asking that flares and bonfires be prepared for their landing, but 100 mi. short of Nome they ran into soupy fog, sat down at Shishmaref south-west of Kotzebue Sound to wait for clear weather. (LINDYS LOST IN ARCTIC SEA headlined the catchpenny New York Evening Graphic.) Several hours later they reached Nome, put their ship down on Safety Bay, 21 mi. away, instead of in the Nome River. There they dined on reindeer meat with Territorial Senator Alfred Julian Lomen; witnessed an Eskimo "wolf dance," performed...