Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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White Silence. To Greenland last July went a party of 15 youthful English scientists headed by H. G. Watkins, 23, to chart part of a prospective Arctic air route between England and Canada (TIME, July 14). One of the party was Augustine Courtauld, 27, son of rich Tycoon Samuel Augustine Courtauld (artificial silk). He volunteered to remain alone through the winter on the Greenland ice cap to make meteorological observations. According to their agreement, Watkins led a party from the base camp near Angmagsalik in March to relieve Courtauld. They searched in vain for his hut in the snow, finally...
...Pole was reached and buoyed with a seven-starred flag (by 1947 the U. S. had joined a hegemony of North and Central American nations). Leaving at the Pole the last whale in the world (all others had died by 1935) the Dipsey blasted its way out of the Arctic, received a hullabaloo welcome from the newshawks...
...cutters of the U. S. Coast Guard put out from Pacific ports in the U. S. and plied northward. Aboard each, the ship's musicians were prepared to play their most amusing sonatas not for the entertainment of their comrades, but over the ship's sides and across the Arctic wastes...
...with 25 others, was missing after the sealing ship exploded. Frissell's father, Dr. Lewis Fox Frissell of Manhattan, had sent them up -Balchen, F. Merion Cooper and Pilot Randy Enslow-because he was doggedly hopeful that his son was alive, and because Balchen is probably the ablest Arctic flyer alive. Said he: "Varick will come back all right. . . . He's been through that sort of thing before. I am optimistic, and I believe I have a right...
...routine flight from Milan to Rome last week. All of them had crossed the South Atlantic with General Italo Balbo's roaring Triads (TIME, Jan. 19). Col. Umberto Maddalena, at the controls, was Italy's most decorated airman, most famed next to Balbo. He it was who, scouring the Arctic wastes in 1928, first sighted General Umberto Nobile and his party from the wrecked dirigible Italia, stranded on the ice near Spitsbergen. Sitting behind Col. Madda lena in the seaplane last week was Capt. Fausto Cecconi, 26, former co-holder with Maddalena of two flying records. With their companion, Lieut...