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Vincent Massey, Canadian Minister to the U. S. LL. D. Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, Labrador missionary Litt. D. John Johnston, director of the department of Research and Technology of U. S. Steel Corp...
...course, imagine that our flight was more than a first tottering step toward establishing commercial transoceanic air service, but we did prove that a West-to-East flight was possible. We gained much valuable experience, however, especially concerning the magnetic fields over Labrador, where our compass responses were exceedingly eccentric...
...meant just another day of newspapers. Skippers of steamships next craned their necks, scanning the leaden skies for some sign of this fleeting Bremen.* But when Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, Capt. Hermann Koehl and Maj. James C. Fitzmaurice dropped onto the frozen waste of Greenly Island in Southern Labrador, far off their expected course, they gave Lighthouse Keeper Le Tempier a torch with which to light the fires of the world...
...confused with Dr. Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, Master Mariner, first medical of the missionary to Labrador and now Superintendent of the International Grenfell Association operating hospitals, stores, orphanages, schools for fisherman of the far north...
Their great luck was that they had landed near an inhabited lighthouse. One Jacques le Tempier, the keeper, told them, during the pauses of his astonishment, that they were on Greenly Island in the narrow Strait of Belle Isle between Labrador and Newfoundland. Hospitably he put on water to boil and meat to cook. The fliers ate in the yellow light of kitchen lamps...