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...insects brought to Europe in 1829 by English explorers looking for a northwest passage to India. Three other of his valuable butterflies, now extinct, came from the swamp which was drained to build San Francisco. He paid $10,000 per year to collectors who went to Baffin Bay, Labrador, the tropics to find specimens for him. Some of the rarest are worth $20,000 a piece. Most of these are drab, colorless. The brilliant butterflies are common...
...back to Germany." But the captain refused to accept letters addressed to his homeland. An hour after their departure, Capt. von Gronau radioed to an astounded family, school and Transportation Ministry that he was headed west. Soon the plane reached Ivigtut, Greenland, pushed on to Cartwright Bay, Labrador, was forced down by rain at Queensport Harbor, N. S.; there waited for clear weather to fly to New York. Back at List, envious left-behind students crowded the inns, "Hoched"' their lucky colleagues and their respected chief time and time again in "Sylter waves," a local concoction of rum, claret & pepper...
Sportsmen. In a 40-h.p. Klemm-Daimler sport monoplane, Pilot Wolfram Hirth and Sportsman Oscar Weller reached Iceland on their way from Berlin to Chicago via Greenland and Labrador. The 770-lb. plane carried no radio, but Pilot Hirth carried a cigaret holder made from the fibula of his amputated left leg. At Iceland the sea looked so wide, their ship so small, that flyers Hirth & Weller decided to go back home...
Animal noises seldom before broadcast, have often and with great success been reproduced in sound films. Rin Tin Tin made his first public barks last month (TIME, April 14). Last week, the Newfoundland Labrador Film Co. was developing talkies of seals just made in Labrador and Raymond Ditmars, famed curator of the New York Zoological Gardens, who has already made a sound film of a fight between a mongoose and a cobra, was preparing to make a talkie in an anthill...
...July 22, 1927, I banded 500 nestling Arctic Terns in a breeding colony on a small island in Turnevik Bay, northeastern Labrador. One of these was picked up dead on a beach near La Rochelle, France, Oct. i, 1927. It had flown about 4,000 miles in less than three months...