Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Berendsen: If nothing can be done, I recommend that an inquiry be addressed to Admiral Byrd for information on the correct equipment for this climate...
...Navy's polar task force (Operation High Jump) left for Antarctica Dec. 2. Byrd joined...
...After five weeks of exploring the wastes of Antarctica,* Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd was back in Washington. Though most Americans were surprised to see him home so soon, a small crowd of crew relatives, reporters and top Navy brass stood in a drizzle to watch the intrepid Admiral debark from the polar flagship, U.S.S. Mount Olympus...
...reporters, Admiral Byrd denied that he had asked the U.S. to stake claims in Antarctica, and refused to say whether he would do so now. He politely pooh-poohed its strategic value, either for military operations or for the minerals it contained, but pointed out that the 1,700,000 square miles the expedition had explored would make a wonderful icebox for storing the world's food supplies...
...entered the war, Darden switched to the Navy and then the Marines, injured his back in a plane crash. He returned to Charlottesville to finish up, took a law degree at Columbia, went on to Oxford. Now 50, for 22 years he was a faithful member of the Byrd political machine, was elected four times to Congress, once to the governorship. Although Darden doesn't need the money (he married a Du Pont), he will now get a raise. Virginia pays its University presidents $15,000 a year-$5,000 more than the governor gets...