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...Peace Prize (1922), arrived in Manhattan last week to raise $500,000 for a flight to the North Pole in the Graf Zeppelin with Dr. Hugo von Eckener, in 1930. "Arctic research will be the prime consideration," said Dr. Nansen. When only 26, he achieved the first crossing of Greenland. In 1892, he tried to reach the North Pole in a peculiar, round-shaped boat named Fram; three years later he was crossing the ice on foot to the highest latitude then attained; a year later he was picked up by the Jackson- Harmsworth expedition. Recently, he has been more...
Bert R. J. Hassell and Parker D. Cramer, Rockford, Ill., to Sweden flyers, long lost in Greenland, last week arrived by boat in Denmark, enthusiastic about Greenland as a way station for trans-Atlantic flyers, full of plans for another attempt...
...Eskimo saw a smoke signal across the fjord near Mount Evans, Greenland. Two men went out in a motor boat to investigate. With a flashlight they signaled back: "Hassell safe." Two minutes later the New York Times received the news by wireless. It was one of the fastest handled and most complete scoops in the history of journalism...
...Times' story which followed was written by Professor William Herbert Hobbs, leader of the University of Michigan Greenland Expedition. It told how Bert Hassell and Parker Cramer, pilots of the monoplane Greater Rockford (which had set out on Aug. 16 on a flight from Rockford, Ill., to Stockholm, Sweden) had been driven off their course by a storm, and with gasoline running low had made a safe landing in Greenland's frozen wilderness. They lived for two weeks on eight ounces of pemmican a day. When found, both Hassell and Cramer were in good health, able...
...eastward to help warm all of Europe, including of course England.* Europe is warmer than North America. Off Europe the Gulf Stream Drift splits into three streams. One goes between the Faeroe and Shetland Islands north of Scotland, another along west Iceland, the third along the western side of Greenland...