Word: ellsworth
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Died. Lincoln Ellsworth, 71, polar explorer who used his share of a large family fortune io help finance many of his expeditions; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1926, only two days after Explorer Richard E. Byrd and Aviator Floyd Bennett flew over the North Pole, Ellsworth, in the airship Norge, repeated the feat with veteran Explorer Roald Amundsen. In the 1930s he made two trips to Antarctica, claimed 381,000 square miles...
Sunspots & Planets. For several years Nelson studied sunspots with his telescope, but failed to find any practical way of using them to forecast magnetic storms. About three years ago, inspired by suggestions of Yale's late Climatologist Ellsworth Huntington, he turned to the planets. His theory: the planets disturb the sun, and the sun disturbs electrical conditions in the earth's atmosphere...
Major General Bryant Edward Moore was a soldier by profession but a sailor by avocation. A down-Easter by birth (Ellsworth, Me.), he spent as much time as he could aboard his big sailing yacht or his Star Class racer...
Hearty, glad-handing Walter Ellsworth Brehm was a leading dentist in Logan, Ohio for a quarter-century before his friends talked him into making politics a full-time profession. He soon worked himself up to Congress, got elected to four successive terms as an unobtrusive Republican from Ohio's Eleventh District...
...hotel "firsts" of Founder Ellsworth Statler, father of the modern U.S. hotel, Douglas added some firsts of his own, e.g., television sets in hotel rooms. He also boosted the income of the chain* by renting wasted ground-floor space to shops. Quiet and reserved, Douglas has none of the flamboyance of his chief rival, Conjad Hilton (TIME, Dec. 12). But last year Statler earned more money. It rang up a record gross of $49.2 million and a net of $4.1 million to Hilton's $42 million gross and $3.9 million net. (Hilton's Waldorf has since...