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...Hickey, 37. master of the American Export Liner Exarch; by his own hand; aboard his ship, few hours after it went aground on the coast of Cyprus at midnight in fair weather. Died. Knud Rasmussen, 54, Danish explorer; of complications following an attack of food poisoning suffered in East Greenland where, making sound films of an Eskimo festival, he partook of the feast; in Copenhagen. Greenland-born, son of a Danish missionary and an Eskimo girl, he knew the difficult, highly inflected Eskimo tongue from birth; spent most of his life studying Greenland and its people; wrote books which ethnologists...
...Bathurst, Gambia, on the northwest shore of Africa the Lindberghs waited two days last week for a breath of sultry air to lift their plane and start them across the South Atlantic. Behind them lay a five-month cruise from New York to Labrador, around Greenland, through Denmark and Sweden, into Russia to Moscow, around the British Isles, through France, Holland, Switzerland, Spain to Portugal. From Lisbon, where Mrs. Lindbergh declined two bottles of 200-year-old port wine, they flew to the Azores. Thence they zigzagged via the Canary Islands, where Colonel Lindbergh painted a sign on his plane...
...than direction, first guesses had the quake almost everywhere-in Mexico, in Siberia, in the Black Sea, in the mid-Pacific. Finally, when the earthquake men were able to co-ordinate distances reported by several stations, their eyes popped. The circles they drew all intersected in Baffin Bay, between Greenland and northeast Canada. Never before had a major quake occurred within the Arctic Circle west of Greenland. If the epicentre had been in a populous area, observed the seismologists, the loss of life & property would have been tremendous...
...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 secured since 1800. The monetary value of these exported resources far outweighs the expenditures of Arctic scientists for their...
...core and Social Democrats as well, are in no mood to ignore threats at their fertile lands and cooperative organizations. But to rally Norway and Sweden behind them may be difficult, for besides the customary international jealousies, Norway is very poutish over Denmark's action in the Greenland case which was settled at the Hague, and Sweden has always been rather friendly with Germany...