Word: labrador
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crews of 24 seaplanes which spade-bearded General Italo Balbo will lead late this month to the Chicago World's Fair. The 6,280-mi. flight will be made via Iceland, Greenland and Montreal in daily hops, the longest of which is 1,560 mi. from Iceland to Labrador. Last week an advance squad of ten Italian mechanics and radiomen left Copenhagen for Reykjavik to set up an overhaul base for the armada. Three airplanes arrived at St. Johns, Nfd. for transshipment to another base at Cartwright, Labrador...
Other articles in the issue will include a reprint from the Athletic Monthly by James Laughlin, IV '36, and an article entitled "Labrador" by Androw Brown '34, an account of the author's own experiences in the North. H. B. Barnes '33 has written "After Death." There will be two poems by W. G. Case '36, and one by C. L. Sulzberger '34, entitled "Evangelistic Odes...
...call for volunteers to aid Sir Wilfred Grenfell in his missionary work in Labrador this summer was announced yesterday by Phillips Brooks House and the Harvard Grenfell Association. There will be a meeting of men who are interested on Monday and Tuesday, April 17 and 18, at 1 o'clock, at Phillips Brooks House...
Arrested in New York on two grand larceny indictments was eccentric Jeanette M. Lewis, 50, stocky, grey-haired onetime Greenwich Village restaurant cook who was given a loud hail ("Savior of Labrador") and quick farewell by the Press when she offered to lend Newfoundland $109,000.000 during its 1931 financial crisis (TIME, Aug. 10, 1931). A Brooklyn druggist said he had paid her $4,000 for a quarter-interest in twelve Newfoundland mines, later found they were owned by Montreal's Henry Cosgrove Bellew. Snapped Financier Lewis, leaving court: "When I get ready to talk there will be plenty...
...Whitney left $750,000 and New York City added an equal amount. Many of the birds will eventually be mounted for public display, but most will be available and of interest only to scientists. Lord Rothschild specialized in rare and disappearing species, got among others a great auk, two Labrador ducks, a series of passenger pigeons and Guadalupe caracaras. Other groups: birds of paradise, Hawaiian honey-creepers, Old World sun-birds, 6,000 American humming birds. Added to its present strength in birds of the Americas and the Pacific (many of them gathered by Whitney-sponsored expeditions), the gift definitely...