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...years. Two nights on the same day last week brought the total distance covered up to more than 25,000 mi. without one mishap. The other flight was westward, over the Northeast Foreland lip to Peary Land. It discovered that a mountain range beginning at a deepcut mouth, Denmark Fjord, runs out on the lip. Skimming over vast desolate plains lying between this range and the great inland mountain chain. Dr. Koch concluded that their geological histories were distinct...
...present expedition was Denmark's greatest. Backed partly by private, partly by government funds. Dr. Koch steamed out of Copenhagen in June 1931 with 66 geologists, zoologists, geographers, meteorologists, cartographers, radiomen; 54 dogs, eight motorboats, tons & tons of supplies...
Died. Dr. Valdemar H. Mensen, 58, founder-president of the Criminal State Police of Denmark; of a heart attack; in a Manhattan hotel. He kept tabs on every foreigner and known criminal in small Denmark, kept Danish crime statistics down. He was elected vice president of the International World Police created in Chicago last fortnight (TIME...
...Germany's Von Gronau in the north; and by Imperial Airways at Bermuda, Aeropostale at the Azores, where France got exclusive operating privileges from Portugal. Imperial, of course, has practically automatic concessions in Bermuda, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Labrador. Pan American has secured exclusive operating concessions in Iceland. From Denmark it got exclusive rights to survey Greenland with a view toward ultimate operation...
Heavyset, unaffected, truculent-looking, Remie Lohse, 40, has yellow fingernails from the methylhydroquinone he uses in developing his tiny photographs. Once his fingers were paint-stained. Leaving Puerto Rico where first his grandfather and then his father were Scandinavian vice-consuls, he studied painting at Denmark's Royal Academy, exhibited a few academic landscapes, interiors and nudes. In 1928 he arrived in the U. S. to wangle odd jobs, worked up to testing the water content of chewing gum in a Long Island City chiclets factory, finally in 1929 to an art department job in Manhattan's Erwin...