Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frankly trading on the interest created by Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd and cinema films of his exploit now showing throughout Britain and the U. S., Commander Stenhouse. who sailed to the Antarctic under Shackleton in 1909, said last week in his prospectus...
...shall visit Admiral Byrd's old headquarters on the barrier, see Mount Erebus, the steaming volcano, and watch the great whaling fleets in action. . . . The attractions of the Ross Sea are a pure germless atmosphere, 24 hours of sunshine every day at the season in which we shall visit it and a cold, dry, invigorating climate with the temperature around 31° Fahrenheit (one degree below freezing). . . . Our good ship will be especially strengthened to resist ice pressure...
Wrote the cinema critic of the London Times last week, after viewing the Byrd talkie...
Only what corresponds in England to the U. S. tabloid press had praise last week for the Byrd talkie. Said the Daily Mail, paper of world's largest English language daily circulation, blatant mouthpiece of Hearstian Viscount Rothermere...
Bertram Blanchard ("Bert") Acosta, co-pilot on the Byrd trans-Atlantic flight in 1927, was released from jail at Mineola (L. I.) after serving five and one-half months of a six-month term for non-support of his wife and two children, who met him at the gates, welcomed him, took him home...