Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Robert Abram ("Captain Bob") Bartlett, 70, salty, sentimental sea dog who spent nearly half a century moseying around the Arctic for fun and profit; of kidney and heart disease; in Manhattan. In 1909 he commanded the ship that carried Peary within dogsled distance of the North Pole...
...Arctic icefields off Newfoundland's east coast, hardy, wind-bitten swilers (sealers) were out on their annual seal hunt...
They know that each spring, without fail, the harp seals (so called from their harplike back markings) swim to meet the Arctic ice floes, honeycomb them with blowholes, whelp near the holes in late February. In three weeks, the ravenous young cats weigh about 70 pounds, are prime young "whitecoats...
Post manager at Arctic Bay for the past three years has been chubby (over 200 lbs.), good-natured bachelor James Bell, who lives in one of the old-style Hudson's Bay houses: two bedrooms, a living room, kitchen, office. Nearby are a store, warehouse, fuel sheds and a "blubber shed," where dog teams eat company walrus meat; a meteorological station built by the U.S. Army but now manned by four Canadians. In the area are about 150 Eskimos; 25 miles to the south is an Anglican missionary...
Eskimos call at the post about once a fortnight, bringing Arctic foxes. While the huskies eat, the post manager settles accounts for the furs brought in, offers advice on supplies for the next trip. The clerk sells essentials: 30-30 rifles and ammunition, all-steel traps, motorboats costing up to $4,000, tea and tobacco (which the Eskimos love), and beyond that, "anything up to nylons...