Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bertrand Blanchard ("Bert") Acosta was chief pilot of Admiral Byrd's transatlantic flight. According to legend, Byrd had to hit him over the head with a fire extinguisher when he got out of hand during the flight. Drink had by that time made him a "physical wreck," according to no less an authority than Anthony H. G. ("Tony") Fokker. Acosta's reply was that "Tony Fokker can go to hell...
...Past winners: Orville and Wilbur Wright jointly in 1909; Glenn Curtiss, Gustave Eiffel, 1913; Charles Lindbergh, 1927; Charles Matthews Manly (posthumously), Richard Evelyn Byrd...
...Four times as much scientific data as on Byrd Antarctic Expedition I, including information on the air currents, meteorology, animal life, geology and general physical characteristics of Marie (his wife) Byrd Land, a hitherto unknown territory of 250,000 sq. mi. which he discovered and claimed for the U. S.; a mass of data on cosmic rays, Polar meteorology, astronomy, geology, hydrography, oceanography, terrestrial magnetism, glaciology, botany, bacteriology, biology...
...Contracts for a year of lectures and a book; plans for Byrd Antarctic Expedition...
...Next day Lincoln Ellsworth, No. 1 Byrd rival in South Polar exploration, sailed for Europe on his third transantarctic expedition, to determine "once and for all" if the so-called South Polar continent is really a single body of land or two or more gigantic islands. Said rich Explorer Ellsworth when asked about his financial backing: "I am an idealist-I don't care where the money comes from...