Word: labrador
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lindberghs, Charles Augustus & Anne. spent last week flying their red-bodied, white-winged Lockheed monoplane around Labrador. From Cartwright, where they were guests of Hudson's Bay Co., they jaunted inland 25 mi. to Muskrat Falls, returned via Melville Lake. Another day they pushed up the coast 150 mi. until they found themselves in a soupy fog, then sat down at Hopedale. Mrs. Lindbergh exclaimed over the "wild picture of indescribable beauty" presented by Labrador's inland landscape. But, as nearly everyone knows, the Lindberghs were not on a sightseeing trip. They were in Labrador, en route...
After making aerial studies of the mouth of Labrador's Northwest River as a seaplane base possibly superior to Cartwright, the Lindberghs hurdled Davis Strait 400 mi. to Godthaab on the west coast of Greenland. There they met the S. S. Jellinge, a 3,500-ton Danish tramp chartered by Pan American, outfitted as a floating laboratory, sent north from Philadelphia last month. Its research staff is headed by Pan American's Major Robert A. Logan, Canadian War ace who bombed the headquarters of Germany's Prince Rupprecht before the famed Richthofen shot him down. Ten years...
...American, by the British Arctic Air Route Expedition and by Germany's Von Gronau in the north; and by Imperial Airways at Bermuda, Aeropostale at the Azores, where France got exclusive operating privileges from Portugal. Imperial, of course, has practically automatic concessions in Bermuda, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Labrador. Pan American has secured exclusive operating concessions in Iceland. From Denmark it got exclusive rights to survey Greenland with a view toward ultimate operation...
...jumped to their feet, chins held high, and chorused "Present." Also sad was the case of a lonely ground crew near Julienehaab. Greenland. For weeks they had waited there to give service to Balbo's planes in case they should choose to land en route from Iceland to Labrador. They never caught sight of the flying armada...
Hubbard. While the New Yorkers were hopping to northern Ontario, another plane took off from Boston bound for Labrador bearing Charles J. Hubbard (Harvard football captain, 1923) and three companions. Already Hubbard has a gold claim staked in the interior of Labrador...