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Over snow-capped Mexican mountains, over 700 mi. of Gulf water, the onetime Boston social worker flew. She picked up her landfall near New Orleans. Aided by wind & weather, guided by radio and a perilous run of nearly two miles...
When Amelia Earhart finally set her plane down in Newark after 14 hr. 18 min., she had flown 2,100 mi. nonstop. No sooner had she cut her switch than a wildly cheering crowd, ignoring 45 policemen, surged onto the runways. Mobsters forced her out of a police radio car, carried her off the field on their shoulders. George Palmer Putnam, ubiquitous husband, became frightened, angry. Said he: "The most disgraceful scene I have ever witnessed. . . . Mexico is four times as civilized as Newark...
Only ostentation the Sulzbergers have permitted themselves is tucked safely away at the bottom of the earth. Explorers of Antarctica may follow the trail of grateful Admiral Byrd to Adolph Ochs Glacier, and from there survey the eminence of Mount Iphigene some 150 mi. from Arthur Sulzberger Bay. Even the four Sulzberger children, Marian, 16, Ruth Rachel, 14, Judith ("Judy"), 11, and Arthur ("Punch"), 9, were not forgotten. The first two letters of their names are immortalized in Mount Marujupu...
...Four times as much scientific data as on Byrd Antarctic Expedition I, including information on the air currents, meteorology, animal life, geology and general physical characteristics of Marie (his wife) Byrd Land, a hitherto unknown territory of 250,000 sq. mi. which he discovered and claimed for the U. S.; a mass of data on cosmic rays, Polar meteorology, astronomy, geology, hydrography, oceanography, terrestrial magnetism, glaciology, botany, bacteriology, biology...
...South Pole varies in thickness from two feet to two miles; that more meteors strike the earth's atmosphere than was formerly suspected; that the Edsel Ford Mountain Range may be a continuation of the great Andean Range; that a hitherto unknown area of 250,000 sq. mi. is part of the Pacific Ocean; that the inland fauna of Antarctica consists solely of skua gulls which live on 50 kinds of moss; that Antarctica is all one continent, as large as the U. S., Mexico and part of Canada combined...