Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President asked Congress to appropriate $30,000 for U. S. participation in a second Polar year in 1932. During a Polar year meteorologists of many countries are sent into the Arctic to gather and compare atmospheric data, draw new conclusions about the weather. The last was held...
...Urania heard Professor Hermann Oberth tell how he hoped to reach Mars or Jupiter within 15 years. In Manhattan the Interplanetary Society, an organization of lunar and planetary aspirants whose members include Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard, Clark University rocketeer (TIME, July 29, 1929), and Sir George Hubert Wilkins, arctic-antarctic explorer, listened to a paper by Robert Albert Charles Esnault-Pelterie, French rocket authority now in the U. S. to find money for his experiments. Dr. Esnault-Pelterie cheered the Interplanetary Society by predicting a successful lunar landing within 25 years...
...with the late Captain Roald Amundsen and General Umberto Nobile flew in the Norge across the North Pole in 1926, contributed a large amount toward the $250,000 which Sir George Hubert Wilkins is raising to take an old Navy submarine renamed the Nautilus, across the Pole under the Arctic ice, the name of the Wilkins expedition last week was changed to the Wilkins-Ellsworth Expedition...
...became known that when Sir Hubert Wilkins takes his old Navy submarine, rechristened the Nautilus, under the Arctic ice to seek a new way to the North Pole, there will be aboard one Jean Jules Verne, rechristener of the ship, a young Rouen lawyer, grandson of Author Jules Verne (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea). Said Jean Jules Verne last week: ". . . My grandfather's dreams are being realized in more ways than...
...London lately have been scenes where British stockholders heckled and insulted a management unable to return profits. Last week in London there was another such shocking meeting, more shocking because the stockholders were those of the venerable Hudson's Bay Co. Ltd., whose ships have successfully conquered stormy arctic waters for 261 years, whose trappers and coureurs de bois opened the Canadian wilderness. Not successfully did Hudson's Bay Co. conquer its stockholders' storm. When the meeting broke up, Charles Vincent Sale was no longer governor. But, eyes flashing, he had said he had a clear conscience...