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...Arctic expedition, and since then has devoted most of his time, with the exception of a few years, to explorative expeditions, including the MacMillan Expedition to Baffin Land, the National Geographic Society and Field Museum Expedition to the Arctic, and the Rawson-MacMillan Field Museum Expedition to South Greenland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MACMILLAN SPEAKS HERE IN DECEMBER | 11/5/1929 | See Source »

Died. Arthur S. Allen Jr., 22, Senior at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, owner and sailor of the sailboat in which Artist Rockwell Kent and party were wrecked this summer off Greenland (TIME, June 24); at Tarrytown, N. Y. Alighting from a bus, he was run down by an automobile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Rockwell Kent, artist, cruising the North with two 22-year-old companions on the 33-ft. sailing yacht Direction, in search of desolate scenes to paint, escaped with them uninjured when the Direction crashed on rocks near Godthaab, Greenland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 29, 1929 | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

Swedish. The Swedish plane Sverige reached Ivigtut on the east coast of Greenland. She had been held in Iceland for a month by engine trouble and bad weather (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: 246 Hours | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...Cramer, 33, was the man who initiated the Chicago-to-Berlin idea. He has been arguing for such a flight for five years. Last year he persuaded Rockford, Ill. boosters to finance him on a trip with Bert Hassell in the Greater Rockford. They got as far as stormy Greenland (TIME, Sept. 10). Two months ago Cramer backed Aviation Editor Wood into a Chicago hotel room and talked sport, adventure, glory at him. The trip would be safe and sure. They would fly from Chicago to Milwaukee, make a courteous gesture to Leif Ericsson's statue there, go across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Untin' Bowler | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

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