Word: labrador
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...association is undertaking a drive to secure steady financial support for a branch of the Genfell Mission in Labrador. The committee stated last night that "inasmuch as the first ship that Wilfred Grenfell used was furnished by Harvard, it seems fitting that the University should continue to support and man the present ship...
...association will be glad to furnish information to any men who are interested in spending a summer as volunteer workers on the coast of Labrador. The Harvard Grenfell Association's headquarters will be located temporarily in Dunster House...
...aircraft division. Pilot Zeller flew a Ford to fourth place in the National Reliability Air Tour last September. Mechanic Wenzel was selected to accompany the Ford which Bernt Balchen and the late Floyd Bennett flew to the relief of the transatlantic monoplane Bremen on Greenly Island off Labrador...
Fire last week destroyed the famed little Grenfell Hospital at Battle Harbor, village of 80 families at Labrador's southern tip. The Battle Harbor Hospital was the first which Famed Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell built when he started his medical missionary work in Labrador 38 years ago. It contained 30 beds, none occupied last week. The patients had been moved inland for the winter.* Dr. Grenfell was in England at the time, lecturing. He expects to remain there until next March...
...published the address he made when inducted in 1929 as Lord Rector of St. Andrews University, Scotland. In it he happily notes: "Two years ago we opened a large, modern, fireproof hospital, built of reinforced concrete and steel" at St. Anthony, Newfoundland. The other four hospitals he conducts in Labrador and Newfoundland are, like the one at Battle Harbor, built of wood...