Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course the American public is very glad that Commander Byrd is both American and a Nordic. For there is in those facts further proof that in Americanism and Nordicism lie germs of greatness which never take on alien soil. But there is sufficient reason why at this time true pride should be expressed that in an age so mechanical as to be morose, so intricate as to lose its intrigue one human has enough of the joie de vivre to wish to risk...
...Byrd. Off the frozen coast of Spitzbergen, with a blizzard raging, came Commander Richard E. Byrd with his U. S. comrades and airplanes aboard the Chantier. They were blocked from Kings Bay's one pier by the Norwegian gunboat Heimdal (she was coaling), and had to cast anchor half a mile offshore. Making a raft out of heavy planking and four lifeboats, they labored all one night at the ticklish task of hoisting from the hold delicate wings and fuselages and towing them in on the raft. The Hobby, Amundsen's 1925 baseship chartered this year by Byrd...
...anything slips," said Byrd, eyeing a wing that dangled from the derrick,"the expedition comes to an end right now!" But all was accomplished without accident...
...Byrd. Commander Richard E. Byrd, his men and airplanes, rode the high seas in their steel ship Chantier toward Tromso, where there waited for him an ice pilot, thoughtfully engaged for Byrd by Explorer Amundsen to keep the Chantier's hull uncrushed by ice between Tromso and Spitzbergen. Byrd flashed congratulations to Captain Wilkins upon his reconnoissance flight to 73° 30' N. (TIME, April 19). There was, allegedly, no race among the three parties, no rivalry. During the next weeks they intended to talk when possible by radio, assist whoever meets disaster...
Cutting across the north seas the S. S. Chantier, bearing Lieutenant Commander Richard E. Byrd and his 45 other Polar pilgrims with their two planes and accessory equipment, approached Tromso, Norway, last week. They planned to proceed to Kings Bay, Spitzbergen...