Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Byrd. Tom, Dick and Harry shook hands in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Tom and Harry went back to their respective jobs (Harry is Governor of Virginia), and their brother Dick went ahead with his ? getting men and freight shaken down, stowed and shipshape aboard the S.S. Chantier as she steamed from the pier. The freight was particularly troublesome, and the ship paused overnight off Staten Island before heading across the ocean for Tromso, Norway, where Dick ? Commander Richard E. Byrd ? will lay in whatever supplies or equipment he still needs for his flights next month...
...program is as follows: Improperia Palestrina Out of the Depths Bach Sacerdotes Domini Byrd Harvard Glee Club Hat dich die Liebe berupst Marx Muttertandelei Strauss Meine Liebste ist so klein Wolf Ich habe in Penna einen Leibstenwhohnen Wolf Miss Hempel I Go Before, My Darling Morley On the Plains Weelkes Choral Hymns from the Rig-veda Holst Hymn to Agni, Hymn to Indra, Hymn to Manas Saltarelle Saint-Sains Harvard Glee Club Grand Aria Adi Bravusa Onorba leggiera Meyerbier Folk Songs O! du Liebe Angeli, Swiss Concon, Canari Jalloux, Neuchatel LAuterbach, German Nightingale, Russian Miss Hempel Mother Moscow Tschesnokor...
...Byrd. After discussing his plans with President Coolidge at the White House and receiving Godspeed; after taking his leave of Secretary of the Navy Wilbur; after testing and christening and testing again his triple-engined Fokker monoplane, the Josephine Ford (in honor of a 3-year-old daughter of a financial backer, Edsel Ford); after laying in 200 smoke bombs and a supply of potassium permanganate (purple when moistened) to be used as targets for his drift-indicator (compass) when flying over snowfields; after discussing landing-skis with a Canadian expert and buying a second extra set, larger than...
...this load, or in subsequent ones, were 400 letters which Captain Wilkins contracted to carry over the Pole and mail in Spitzbergen, for $10 a letter. A New Jersey philatelist hopes to sell them to his customers for $12.50 each. Similarly. Lieutenant Commander Byrd is taking U. S. flags on his trip for societies wishing to possess flags that have been to the North Pole...
...whose granddaughter is Commander Byrd's pole-flight airplane named? (See SCIENCE...