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...Communist Party: the dictature over which Joseph Stalin now presides, ruling all Russia. Last week M. Zinoviev molted the last feather of his prestige when he was forced to resign as President of the Third International, the Communist world bureau for subversion, espionage and odd job propaganda. Citizens of Leningrad, once M. Zinoviev's political bailiwick, signalized his utter downfall by changing the name of Zinoviev University to the University of Leningrad...
Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile. The bitter winds droned, the ether pulsed with wireless signals, blank white leagues of steppes and frozen lakes passed underneath for 21 hours before the staunch dirigible Norge swooped slowly to her mooring mast at desolate Vadso on the north tip of Scandinavia, 700 miles from Leningrad (where she had waited two weeks for repairs and good weather on her way from Rome-to-Nome). Pausing only long-enough to refuel and bundle themselves more thickly in furs, Colonel Nobile and his mates cast off again and sailed all through another Arctic night, out over Barent...
Amundsen. The Norwegian and U. S. commanders of the Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile expedition finished unloading equipment from the gunboat Heimdal at Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, and settled themselves to await the arrival of their Italian colleague in their dirigible Norge, long overdue from Leningrad. The first days of all-night sunshine found them skiing on the slopes of Mount Zeppelin*, eating seal-steak at Sailmaker Roenne's house, putting finishing touches to the dirigible's mooring mast and hangar...
Amundsen. While their airship Norge gathered her strength at Leningrad for the hop from Europe to Spitzbergen, Explorers Amundsen and Ellsworth disembarked from their steamer in ice-choked Kings Bay and set about unloading a cargo of hydrogen gas, food, and other materials. A mooring mast was standing, and a hangar going up, to receive the Norge, which was expected very shortly with her crew of 16 men and one terrier-mascot...
...arms aloft; if north, cross arms." The gapers lifted their arms uncrossed. The nearest railway station was that of a village near Riga, in Latvia. That evening, 12 hours behind schedule, the Norge loomed through the dusk and was hauled into a hangar near the Gatchina Palace, outside of Leningrad. Hundreds of Soviet soldiers had to struggle in three feet of snow to get her berthed...