Word: furred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ranged in cases around the hall will be the Lindbergh equipment: parachutes, electrically heated clothes, sun helmets, mosquito netting, emergency food rations, landing flares, sextant, chronometers, goggles, stove, tent, cooking utensils, sledge, sea anchors, collapsible rubber boat with mast & sail, emergency outboard motor, fur boots, rifles, revolvers, ammunition, wireless sets, ship's log, maps, charts...
Professor Arnold Wolfers of Yale will speak at the meeting of the Harvard Politics Club to be held on tomorrow evening in the Lowell House Common Room. The subject of his talk will be "Nationalism and Internationalism." Professor Wolfers was Director of the "Hochschul fur Politik," an international center of political science, which was abolished by the Nazis...
...Economically, the land north of the Arctic circle has been of vast importance for the last 200 years. Such commodities as furs, fish, whale oil, seal oil, eiderdown, and ivory have been exported for our use and profit. For example, the Hudson Bay Company, one of the oldest trading concerns in the world, has taken out millions of dollars in the fur trade. The cryolite mines in southern Greenland are the world's only source of that ore, which is used in the manufacture of aluminum. It is hard to estimate the value of the whale oil that has been...
...largest cities, incredibly sordid. The bootlegger, whenever he advanced in his calling to the point of professionalism, became a public enemy in the way that any large class outside the law does; he settled his differences outside the law, to the accompaniment of slaughter and terrorism. The early colonial fur traders became suspect for the same reason, although the sin of the bootlegger has been aggravated by a centralization which made him a vast entrepreneur in other criminal fields, and produced the American genus racketeer, with all that it connotes in the breakdown of municipal, state, and even federal administration...
...turned up two years ago in Hollywood to be a cameraman, joined the Van Dyke expedition as guide, photographed so well that Van Dyke decided to make him the hero. Most of the whites in the cast are members of Van Dyke's technical crew. The fur-trader is Peter Freuchen, who wrote the book on which Eskimo is based. Van Dyke himself is a police inspector. When he came back to Hollywood last spring with 600,000 feet of film, Director Van Dyke brought along a dozen Eskimos for interior sequences. They endured Hollywood for six months, hurried...