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...shore of the Polar Sea with the Alaskan still ticking off miles like a great grey goose and had bountiful fuel still aboard. They had thought it a shame to land, and decided on an unscheduled reconnaissance flight due north over the seething floes. It was snowing a bitter blizzard, but far from shore the sun reappeared and they distinguished, 7,000 feet below, that the smooth sea had changed to a white inferno of hummocks ? the great polar icecap in the center of which is what geographers call "the pole of inaccessibility," one of the objectives for which...
...cockpit and signaled "Contact!" for a test flight, the craft bucked and plunged, struggled amain with roaring cylinders, but could not rise from the clinging snowfield. Overhead there was perfect flying weather, bright and clear. Eielson ripped the throttle wide open. The Alaskan roared forward, kicking up a small blizzard, and at last crept clear and aloft?only, when she landed after a brisk spin, to crash into a buried wire fence at the end of the field, smashing her propeller, landing gear and fuselage. No Pole flight for her for many weeks...
...Wets will have to change .State laws before they can present any reason to Congress for changing the Volstead act. In such a contest straw ballots are as useless as a straw hat in a blizzard...
...steamers Solvang, Laristan and Antinoe. The Solvang rammed a tanker and sank. The Laristan foundered and was lost with all her Malay crew. The Antinoe foundered in a 90-mile gale and blizzard, her 25 officers and men being rescued by the President Roosevelt (George Fried, Captain), which stood by with splendid heroism for four days...
Princeton 36, Harvard nothing at all: That was on November 7, the same day that 8,000 automobiles which started from Urbana to Chicago after a football game were caught in a blizzard and none of them got home. Their occupants found shelter where they could and the paper says "at Kankakee a large number took refuge in the insane asylum...