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Today's conference was a 75-minute gripe session that might well go down in modern Chinese history as the Day of the Big Wind. First came the Americans' questions: When were idle G.I.s to be reassigned? Why couldn't a correspondent buy a parka when the Army was about to sell equipment to Chinese...
...curious fellow. As artist-correspondent for Harper's Weekly he covered the Klondike Gold Rush of '97, proved that Robert Henderson and not George ("Siwash") Carmack made the original strike. He came home, wrote a best seller (The Klondike Stampede), lectured and had his picture in a parka plastered on American billboards...
...dressed in one to three sets of long wool underwear, field jacket, parka, sweaters, woolen cap beneath the helmet, two or more pairs of heavy wool socks, shoe pacs or leather boots and raincoats. Yet we always seemed to be cold. More than once we had to sleep on the wet, cold earth in our clothes. That was pretty uncomfortable, but looking at the suffering infantrymen and the supply carriers who had to take loads up steep mountains and the litter carriers who had to.bear the wounded down, we could not feel very...
...spaces. The outer layer should be windproof, water-repellent, but not airtight; all outer garments should be designed to permit the escape of body moisture. The Army's tendency is to avoid furs: certain cloths are just as warm, about one-third the price. Instead of a fur parka, the Army prefers one made of tightly woven cotton lined with alpaca, trimmed with wolverine or wolf fur. On such fur, the Army believes, the breath will not freeze. Coyote fur, hitherto regarded by Southwestern ranchers as so much predatory garbage, is now declared by the Army to be almost...
...They brush teeth, sluice bearded faces in the angled brightness of the Arctic sun, build an igloo settlement complete with electric lights on a 9-foot-thick ice floe. (Four scientists have already spent six months of an anticipated year there.) Camera study: chief conqueror Dr. Otto Tulyevitch Schmidt, parka and bosky beard a wreath of icicles. Christmas touch: an antlered reindeer team prancing under the low wing of one of the giant four-motored ANT6 monoplanes...