Word: eielson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rescue Machinery. Hampered for weeks by fog over open water in the Bering Strait, the rescue machinery assembled to deliver Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland, lost since Nov. 9 (TIME, Dec. 9), began to rustle last week with activity in Nome, Alaska...
...Eielson is vice president and general manager of Alaskan Airways. Inc., subsidiary of the powerful and influential Aviation Corp. He was on the second flight of rescue to an ice-beleaguered fur trading ship when he dropped from sight somewhere near Cape North, Siberia. He and Borland had food for a month. Last week that time elapsed. At Teller, Alaska, has been established a secondary base for the impatient rescuers...
...Eielson Lost? Carl Ben Eielson, most experienced of all Arctic flyers, was probably groping over the ice packs off Cape North, Siberia, last week. Flyer Eielson knows the Arctic as well as the palms of his slim, steady hands, off one of which (the left) the Arctic cold bit a finger one day when his plane was forced down. For several years he piloted Capt. Sir George Hubert Wilkins, explorer, over icy wildernesses. Their greatest exploit, as great a piece of avigation as ever was done, was flying from Point Barrow, Alaska, over converging meridians of longitude and across shifting...
Last week a native dog teamster reported that he had seen a thin column of smoke near where Pilot Eielson might have been forced down...
...Eielson to the Rescue. Icebound off Cape North, Siberia and 500 miles from Fairbanks, Alaska, were two ships containing 14 men and a maid, also $1,000,000 worth of white fox, squirrel and other Siberian furs. At Fairbanks was Carl Ben Eielson, Arctic and Antarctic flyer, now general manager of Alaskan Airways. To the rescue flew he, took off the furs and the humans...