Word: iceland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sept. 5), thence across Davis Strait to Greenland and down the coast to Julian-ehaab. Hopping off from there to the booming salute of a Danish warship, Pilot Hutchinson skirted the southern tip of the great island, headed north for Angmagsa-lik. His itinerary called for successive hops to Iceland, the Faroe Islands, England, Rome...
Easily the Sikorsky flew to St. John. N. B., thence to Anticosti Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence where bad weather disposed of a tentative plan to reach London in five days via Labrador, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Edinburgh. Pilot Hutchinson was emphatic in stating he would take as long as necessary to insure safety. Nevertheless the Detroit Free Press fiercely flayed the "inhumanity" of Mr. & Mrs. Hutchinson in "compelling their two children to share their perils...
...business. Already Pan American has a network of lines south from Miami and Texas, roping the Caribbean and South America. Few weeks ago Transamerican Airlines bowed itself out of the North Atlantic field, leaving P. A. A. to work out its projected air passage to Europe via Greenland and Iceland. Last week P. A. A. acquired another strategic outpost-Alaskan Airways, comprising 2,500 mi. of lines. The future was too obscure to be read in detail but any observer could make plausible guesses merely on the strength of Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau's recent predictions of airplane service...
...wished the newsmen ranged about him would quit trying to make him a hero. He wished they would not refer to his arrival that day by flying boat from Germany as a "transatlantic flight." He wished they would not ask him lor the101st time if the route via Iceland and Greenland, which he had surveyed thrice in three years, were "feasible." Above all he wished they would leave so he might go to bed. As if to persuade them that he really was not worth so much fuss, he said...
Most important difference was that while Capt. von Gronau had to slip furtively westward from Iceland in 1930 without even confiding his destination to his wife or crew, for fear his government would forbid the venture, he now has government sponsorship for surveying the intercontinental route...