Word: packed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon after the War the vast waters lying between the South Polar ice barrier, Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope threatened to go the way of the Arctic whaling grounds. Again Captain Larsen set out to find more whales. This time he went through the ice pack into the Ross Sea* where no explorer had been for a decade. Thence he pounded his way into the Bay of Whales where six years later Richard Evelyn Byrd established a base at Little America. Once again Captain Larsen made whaling history, by arriving on a Christmas Eve. Four days later...
...makes over explorers. Time & again they have gone to the rescue of an explorer in regions where they had been plying their regular trade for years. When Admiral Byrd went into the Ross Sea in 1929, when the ice was so thick that relatively few whaling expeditions bucked the pack, he found no less than 32 vessels at work. The Ross Sea whaling fleet is composed of big factory ships, each mothering a flock of chasers, each about the size of a small tugboat. The chasers scour the frigid waters until they spy a spouting whale, sneak...
...noon, the precious package was carried downstairs to the large, unlovely office of the Superintendent of Airmail. There, tense and expectant, some 200 airline executives, newshawks and Government officials jammed around a long table. At the head sat baldish Postmaster General Farley slightly ill-at-ease, surrounded by a pack of assistants. Spectators mounted chairs and desks to see and hear better...
...possible foreign trade deals. They claim that even the present tariff is no barrier to peasant-made goods. And in defense of high protection, they hammer on the educational value of domestic toys, on U.S. diligence in making toys safe & sanitary. A modern child may safely wolf a pack of crayons, eat the paint off a set of blocks...
...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...