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...flights last year, the 1926 explorers are already afield. Despatches from the snow motors division of the expedition financed by the Detroit Chamber of Commerce (TIME, Jan. 4) reported within the fortnight the breakdown of two "iron malamutes" (tractors). Husky-dogs have been substituted to freight supplies to Point Barrow, where Captain George Wilkins will arrive in April with his pilots and two Fokker planes. One pilot, Lieutenant Carl B. Eielson has flown over 60,000 miles all alone in the Alaskan airmail service between Fairbanks and McGrath. These men intend heading north and northwest from Point Barrow, exploring...
...winner of the Lee Wade Prize last spring was Donald Wait Keyes '25, who recited "Henry Hudson's Last Voyage" by Henry Van Dyke. The first Boylston Prize was won by Edward John Metzdorf for his delivery of "The Trial of Abner Barrow" by Richard Harding Davis...
...challenge is clear. Last week the trumpet of daring was pressed to the lips of heroism and sounded a venture. In an airplane Captain George Hubert Wilkins will undertake next spring a direct passage from Point Barrow in Alaska over the Ice Pole to Spitzbergen?slightly less than 1,900 miles of Arctic. Vilhj�lmur Stefansson, veteran North rider, on whose last trip Captain Wilkins served as second in command, will devote himself to the details of preparation...
...Trial of Abner Barrow," Richard Harding Davis; Edward John Metzdorf...
...fallen Labor Government authorized the tremendous expenditures involved, and it is more than certain that the Tories will carry on. The orders were placed, one with the English Government dirigible plant at Barrow, the other with the private but all powerful firm of Vickers, Ltd., which Sir Basil Zaharoff, Europe's mystery man, is said to control. The English call one the "Socialist" ship, the other the "Capitalist." But whether Labor or Tory is in power, the British always think of Empire, and the ships will connect England with India and Australia in four stages...