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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miguel Primo de Rivera, Jr., son of Spain's Dictator, did not arrive in Manhattan last week, via the Spanish Royal Mail Line, but on the French Liner Paris, with intent to organize in North & South America a chain of Spanish Tourist agencies...
Papua (New Guinea), largest island of the archipelago that lies just north of Australia, like scattered shards of a frail continent, is the home of cannibals, gibbons, serpents and birds of paradise. To get some of those birds, and on his way to photograph other jungle life, for the New York Zoological Park, Curator Lee S. Crandall left Manhattan last week. At Port Moresby, Papua, he will make up his field expedition of habitants and natives. Particular end of his quest is the "Rudolf," largest and most gorgeous bird of paradise. When it is not drifting between twilit trees...
More significant to science was the news that such experiments are conducted at the Mid-Asiatic University at remote and romantic Tashkent, in the wilderness east of Lake Aral and north of the Hindu Kush. Before the Russian 1917 Revolution only eight Russian cities had universities. The Soviets have set up a dozen more in districts which they control. All are staffed by men who, radiating Communistic culture, are intent on obtaining scientific proofs for their materialistic theories...
...German steamship Samos. After a year's palaver with the Polish Ministry of War, they had left Paris, intending to pursue the southern route to the Azores, thence to Halifax, thence to New York. Ten hours later the steamer Aztec sighted them progressing mysteriously northwards, 463 miles north of the Azores. About two-and-a-half hours later, the steamer Tamakura saw them winging eastward at a position 215 miles northeast of that reported by the Aztec. Manifestly they either were lost or deliberately returning toward Europe. Near Cape Finisterre, clogging in a gasoline feed pipe forced them...
...four men. Lost in the Arctic is an authentic and thrilling record of the Snow expedition. They went up the west coast of Alaska, hunting whales and walruses, lassoing a 2,200-pound polar bear and taking him aboard ship alive, hobnobbing with colonies of seals, strange birds, Eskimos. North of Alaska, on Herald Island, they found the remains of a tent, guns, cooking utensils and the bones of four men lying, side by side, on the frozen ground. The Snows, father and son, buried the bones, solemnly, and then raised a flag claiming Herald Island...