Word: crockers
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...fogs and gales which delayed their work of finding west of them, on Ellesmere Island, a suitable spot for a food and fuel way-station between Etah and Cape Thomas Hubbard (Axel Heiberg Land), from which advance base they were to make search flights still farther west where fabulous "Crocker Land" may or may not await discovery...
Four days the Argonauts gave themselves to prepare. Then they were to start reconnaissance flights toward Cape Columbia on Grant Land, where an advance air-base would be made for flights toward the Pole and into the unmapped region westward where "Crocker Land...
...would establish an air base between Etah, Greenland (the expedition's intended boat base) and Cape Columbia, Grant Land (intended take-off for flights seeking the Pole and fabulous Crocker Land). Here gasoline, food, a radio-operator, smoke-bombs, an Eskimo and dog (for forced retreat), would be left...
...Sheldon Whitehouse, wife of the Counselor of the American Embassy in Paris. Mrs Donald McDonald, wife of the Military Attaché in Brussels; Mrs. Edward Crocker, wife of the Third Secretary of the embassy in Rome; Mrs. Charles Moore, wife of the Military Attaché in Paris...
Explorer Donald B. MacMillan was ci the same opinion. In the midst of final preparations for his own flight to the Pole and to fabulous Crocker Land, MacMillan outlined the rescue work he proposed to carry out before any explorations. After making a base at Etah, Greenland, early in August, he would, he said, take two planes to Cape Columbia to see if Amundsen had reached there. If he had not, the planes would then fly on the line from Cape Columbia...