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General Umberto Nobile and friends were last week being rescued. Ice breakers from Norway and Russia, airplanes from Italy and France, Finland and Sweden, sought to batter their way to three moving targets on the Arctic ice packs. From the chaos of radio messages, authentic and faked, which told of the disaster to the expedition of Polar Pilgrim Nobile, these facts at length emerged: Pilgrim Nobile with five companions, one seriously injured, was perilously adrift on an island of blinding ice, which was growing steadily smaller as water channels opened; seven men, cast loose in the airship after the wreck...
...Service with a party of supervisors of Eastery national forests, the State Forester's Association, numbering 60 men from 20 states, the director of the Forest Experiment Station of Sweden, together with a number of American forest research men who came to Petersham to meet him, and foresters from Finland. Germany, Denmark, Canada, and Japan...
...American Olympic material, Paddock replied, "the backbone of the 1928 track forces will be formed by the weight men. Barring accidents and last-minute upsets, the United States should gather a sufficient number of points in the field events to lead the field. To win, we must defeat Finland and Germany. Koenig, of Germany, will give the American sprinters their stiffest opposition...
Death came last week to Europe's greatest trader and trafficker in Sleep-Davison Dalziel, 74, Baron Dalziel of Wooler. From Finland's icy mountains to Egypt's torrid sands, tired travelers snore peacefully, each night, in the sleeping cars of the great company of which he was president-La Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Europeens.† Moreover Baron Dalziel was, up to the moment of his death in London last week, chairman of the British Pullman Car Co.-pioneers of such luxury services as the Pullman-Golden Arrow route between London...
...Twenty miles racing through steep mountain passes with rifles, rations and field equipment did for a French entrant who was carried in by his team companions delirious with exhaustion. Popular protests forecast cancellation of the cruel test in future games. Norwegians also won opening honors in speed skating with Finland on their steel heels, U. S. third...