Word: itasca
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department of Commerce's Air Commerce Bureau quietly sailed out to Hawaii to survey the possibility of establishing depots for U. S. airlines to the Antipodes. With similar lack of fanfare, twelve youngsters from Honolulu's Kamehameha School were thereafter packed aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Itasca, taken out to Jarvis, Howland and Baker Islands, established in crews of four as weather observers. Along with their instruments for noting wind velocity, rainfall and cloud formations, the boys had to be supplied with everything else to support life. None of the islands is more than 20 ft. above sealevel...
...upper fastnesses of Minnesota, amid a stubby growth of pine and spruce there lies Itasca Lake. Here rises the Mississippi. In the early spring of 1541 canoes floated down the sluggish current of this river that drains the mountain ranges of the United States, and a Spaniard discovered the Father of the Waters. But fever hangs in the mists of the low country and on one black night DeSoto's body was lowered away into the quiet water...