Word: inness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the Italian freighter Leonardo da Vinci with a cargo of Renaissance paintings was being tossed in a heavy storm last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 23), the steamship Manuka, carrying a $125,000 traveling exhibition of modern British art to New Zealand, crashed in the fog on the rocks off South...
Across the wasteland of Alaska there is now on trek a herd of 3,000 reindeer, mostly females, which is being driven from Nobuktulik to the Kittigazuit Peninsula in the Canadian Northwest. The herd started in November and is due in the spring of 1931, traveling via the Colville Basin...
Sender of the C. O. D. consignment is Carl Joys Lomen, President of the Lomen Reindeer Corp., in which are also engaged his four brothers, George, Harry, Ralph and Alfred. He was born in southern Minnesota of Norwegian stock, was raised to follow his father into law. In the summer...
In 1892 Dr. Sheldon Jackson, working for the U. S. Bureau of Education in Alaska, became worried about the Eskimos; they were starving. He imported from Siberia a herd of 1,280 reindeer, and some Lapp herdsmen to teach the Eskimos how to tend them.* The Eskimos, natural hunters and...
Today the Lomen family is separated. Two brothers are on the Alaskan ranges; two are in Seattle at the company's main office, while President Carl travels the country in charge of sales promotion. But he spends his summers with the herds.