Word: packs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even the oldest peer and the "Father of the House" were consulted. Oldest is William Henry John North, 93, 11th Baron North, High Steward of Banbury, an asthmatic but indomitable old soldier, who still follows his pack of basset-hounds as best he can in his limousine, and must take little comfort that he is a great-grandson of the historic Lord North (Prime Minister 1770-82) whose imperious attitude toward the American Colonies was a major cause of their revolt. The Baronage of North was in abeyance from 1802 to 1841, and the present nth Baron North...
...both possible and probable that sea currents during the next fortnight would crack a passageway through the pack at about the 180th degree of longitude. The two Byrd ships could then get through, load personnel and goods, and scurry back before the pack reformed...
...asked the U. S. State Department to get the English and Norwegian whaling ships at the outside of the ice pack to help his ships break through. Britain and Norway urged the whaling companies to order their ships to the rescue, if rescue be needed.* Company officials said that they would wait a fortnight, in hopes that the pack would open. To send their vessels against the pack now would break the ships and not the ice. If all else failed, they would wait until they could bring the Byrd group afoot over...
...That the pack would open, that Admiral Byrd's worry was needless unexpectedly became a promise at the week's end. For the first time this season whales appeared at Little America, south of the pack. Some jigsaw passage they must have had. Admiral Byrd watched them frisking malodorously at the ice shelf, bunted one on the snout with a ski pole...
...Lever Bros., English soap makers (Lux, Lifebuoy), control the company which owns the English whaler now at the ice pack...