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...they left Lae, New Guinea for the "worst section"-the 2,550 miles of open ocean to tiny Rowland Island, where no plane had ever been. With typical stunt flyer's negligence, Miss Earhart did not bother to reveal her position along the way. The Coast Guard cutter Itasca at Howland heard from her about once an hour. Her final message said she had only half-an-hour's gas left, could not see land. She still gave no position and the Itasca's direction finder could not get a bearing because she had failed to adjust...
When it became apparent that the plane was down, the Itasca steamed hopelessly to the search without any idea where to look. Experts believed that the plane would float a long time if undamaged in landing and if the weather was good. But a Navy flying boat that set out from Hawaii was turned back by a severe, freakish ice storm. Then came the first faint radio signals, which soon were reported by amateurs in Cincinnati, Wyoming, San Francisco and Seattle, by the British cruiser Achilles in the South Pacific, by Pan American Airways in Hawaii. Though all that could...
...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...
...Calvin Coolidge, apostle of Prosperity, visiting perhaps the greatest single source of Prosperity in the U. S. The low mountains of Itasca and St. Louis counties are, literally, mountains of iron. Near Hibbing, where the earth gives an enormous red yawn, is the Hull-Rust Mine, the largest open-pit iron ore mine in the world...