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...balloon flight. Later he captured world attention by leading the 1906 Anglo-American polar expedition, a two-year journey that established the fact that there is no land directly north of Alaska. Between 1909 and 1912, Mikkelsen led a mission in search of the diaries of another brave Dane, Mylius-Erichsen, who had died while exploring the northeast corner of Greenland. After recovering some of the ill-fated explorer's papers, Mikkelsen and a single companion were marooned for two years...
...four six-volt batteries drive it at about five knots on the surface, slightly faster under water. The U24 can dive as deep as 98 ft., is equipped with an oxygen supply and an air-washing system that allows submersion for eight hours at a time. Dealer Erich Mylius of Hamburg reports more than 500 orders from the boat show alone, most of them from the U.S., and hopes to be turning out 1,500 a month by September. Price: $1,425. > For those who would rather hover than sink: a flying machine that never gets more than...
...family fortune out of a miserly and almost?not quite?inhuman old uncle who has previously cheated her father and would apparently prefer to see her starve to death. It is in the midst of this undertaking, however, that accident opens a more brilliant prospect. The family of Helmut Mylius, a curio dealer, has been kept by him in a state of semi-starvation, shabbiness and sullen despair on the plea of extreme poverty. Ulrika discovers that Mylius is in reality a multi-millionaire who has kept his fortune secret out of his excessive miserliness. She brilliantly inserts herself into...
Ulrika piles up a fortune on commissions out of the general flood of money, after she has thoroughly demoralized the children?the only son develops into a degenerate?and brought the rest of her own family and friends to feed at the trough. Only one daughter, Josephine Mylius, withstands the influence, and a battle ensues between the wicked, but clever, and the good, but dumb, which concludes at the end of Part I with the defeat of Josephine. She is unable, in a world wholly full of rottenness and decay, to find her own feet; and Ulrika achieves her most...
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