Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd worried in Antarctica last week. The work of his two-year expedition had gone as far as practicable. He had made several successful exploratory flights. Dr. Laurence McKinley Gould was back, hairy and dirty, from his 1,500-mi. geological trip to the Queen Maude Range. The Byrd ships, City of New York and Eleanor Boiling, were on the way from Dunedin, N. Z., to pick up the 42 men of his party, their records, rock specimens and equipment. The men were fretting for a change of society. Several were...
...almost never freezes to more than a seven foot depth, vast blocks had piled upon one another to form a 36-ft. barricade of ice at the mouth of the Ross Sea. It extended 400 miles toward the Ross Shelf ice, on whose edge, at Little America, the Byrd party was waiting. Tantalizing was the 150-mi. expanse of clear water between the shelf and the pack...
...both possible and probable that sea currents during the next fortnight would crack a passageway through the pack at about the 180th degree of longitude. The two Byrd ships could then get through, load personnel and goods, and scurry back before the pack reformed...
...turbulent weather have prevented Sir George Hubert Wilkins from making any extensive airplane explorations. All he could do was make three brief flights this year, and those from a ship. He had hoped that he could fly from his base at Deception Island to visit Admiral Byrd at Little America. On the far side of the continent, Sir Douglas Mawson's men were able to make only a brief flight from their ship, the Discovery. In the same general neighborhood the Norwegian whale-spotters, Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen and Lützow Holm, did not fly far from the Norvegia...
President Coolidge's Armistice Day address; Byrd's Antarctic expedition; Recent developments in China; Pan American relations in recent months; The Coronation of Hirohito...