Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months, were finally rescued by a Chilean trawler. In 1921, English bells were rung as Sir Ernest sailed away on another white voyage, his last. The following year on Jan. 5, he died of a, heart attack off South Georgia Island, 2,800 mi. northeast of Explorer Byrd's later Little America. When Lady Shackleton heard of his death, she insisted that his body be buried in the country he loved to explore...
Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, addressing the Chicago Geographic Society, revealed that his Antarctic expedition was still financially embarrassed. Said he: "We must get out of debt before I can discuss my plans for the future. The hard times dealt us a serious blow. At present the Antarctic expedition is $110,000 in debt. Our movie is not making anything to speak of." Variety last week reported that the Admiral's lectures are grossing $4,000 to $5,000 nightly; that he will clear some...
...authenticity both in colonial backgrounds and in picturization of the crafts of spinning and weaving. "The Medal Maker" was made especially for the American Numismatic Society and demonstrates the making of medals and coins as done by Laura Gardin Fraser, maker of the official government medals of Lindbergh and Byrd...
...through legislation to beautify Washington, build hundreds of post offices. They had beaten Mrs. Katherine Langley in her mountainous, rock-ribbed-Republican district in Kentucky. In the first Tennessee district Republican Representative B. Carroll Reece, the only party man President Hoover had endorsed for reelection, was beaten by Oscar Byrd Lovette, an Independent...
Best cinematography?Willard Van der Veer and Joseph T. Rucker (With Byrd at the South Pole...