Word: molokov
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...edge, smashed Professor Schmidt's motorboat. The hardy professor worked overtime in a gale to keep his precarious village functioning. Last week he was running a fever, saying nothing about it, when the weather cleared and Soviet rescue planes got through. They were flown by Pilots Molokov, Slepnev and Kamanin. The professor loaded his weakest villagers aboard. Molokov could squeeze only three men in his cabin, but he had an idea. He got out his silk parachutes, laid two men on the ice. He swaddled them in all the clothes they had, then in the parachutes, wrapping them like...
...plane pilots now began a strange race to make most ferry trips, rescue most men. They set their loads down at Cape Van Karem, hastily refueled and tore back to the ice pack. In one day Pilot Molokov made four trips, got 20 villagers. Pilot Kamanin made four, got 18. The population of the village dwindled to 28, to six. Finally the last six were set down at Cape Van Karem. And then the pilots went back for the dogs and such scientific instruments as were worth the haul...