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...Fairbanks operators were, however, in constant touch with Wilkins' overland party under Explorer "Sandy" Smith. The latter had been obliged to leave his comrades encamped some 140 miles south of Point Barrow on the Colville River, while he and an aide mushed across the tundra to the nearest settlement. He had run out of food for the dogs. Soon, the encamped ones flashed, the animals would have to be shot. Wilkins, second-in-command, Major Lanphier, left behind in Fairbanks, at once rushed repairs on the damaged Fokker Detroiter to send aid. Meantime he worried and worried about Wilkins...
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...very visible reflection of this feeling was to be found on ten consecutive pages of the Saturday Evening Post last week?an eleven page group advertisement for which $77,000 was paid by the Willys Overland Co. and eight companies furnishing standard accessories of that car. The display was said to be a record insertion, in price and size, for all time...
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Rear Admiral Edward W. Eberle, Chief of Naval Operations, denied that Commander Lansdowne had protested against sending the Shenandoah overland; declared that he had consulted with the Chief of the Bureau of Naval Aeronautics and Commander Lansdowne before ordering the flight, had given orders that naval officers should use their own judgment in making flights. He said further that the Shenandoah was not sent on a propaganda mission but was on a training flight, since the ship might at any time have been compelled to fly overland from coast to coast for military purposes...