Word: nome
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brigadier General William A. Mitchell has organized an air route between New York and Peking with three intermediate stops: Winnipeg, Nome and near the Amur River in Siberia. The General predicts that a passenger will be able to start from New York at three o'clock in the afternoon and land in Peking at ten o'clock in the morning of the third day. The General backs up his somewhat bold prediction by describing a number of safety devices...
...Eskimos who will light the fire when they see the preceding beacon, and run on between stations to make sure the signal is not missed. In no other way could the news be transmitted in so short a time, the journey ordinarily taking several weeks. Business men of Nome are backing the explorer and are raising $5,000, besides providing volunteer assistance...
...United States Biological Survey in his evidence before a Congressional Committee, states that within twenty years the annual output of Alaska would be one and a quarter million carcasses. A reindeer weighs more than two sheep. This year the reindeer ready for exportation for meat purposes gathered together at Nome in Alaska are estimated to be worth $600,00 when they get to Chicago; and $370,000 at Nome...
...branch of the American Asiatic Association, Julian Arnold, Commercial Attache of the United States to Peking, advocated the construction of this connecting link between America and Asia,--a step which would make possible a railroad from Chicago to Peking, and eventually from New York to Paris and Berlin, via Nome and Omsk. Should this plan ever be put into effect, the globe-trotter would no longer be forced to endure the hardships of any voyage save that across the Atlantic. The Peterkin family, which is fabled to have crossed Bering Strait on ice to avoid the discomforts of shipboard, could...