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...calling was not medicine but exploration. In 1903 he left for the Antarctic in a small vessel called the Français, explored the Palmer Archipelago. Back in France, he built a ship which was then regarded as the last word in polar exploration vessels. This was the Pourquoi Pas ("Why Not"), a 140-ft. three-master of 449 tons, equipped with both sail and steam and reinforced for icebreaking. In 1908 he took the Pourqnoi Pas to the Antarctic, explored 2,250 mi. of coastline, discovered an island which was called Charcot Land, gathered a mass of meteorological, geological...
During the War Dr. Charcot commanded a submarine chaser, won the Croix de Guerre and Britain's D. S. C. Afterward he turned to Earth's other Pole, took the Pourqnoi Pas on seven trips to Greenland, exploring the coast, sounding the bottom, studying Eskimo folklore. In 1928 the sturdy old man in his sturdy old ship searched long & hard for his lost colleague, Roald Amundsen. By this time he had presented the Pourquoi Pas to the French Museum of Natural History, which sponsored most of his expeditions...
...which are twice as far from the Saskatchewan wheat fields. For 50 years Canadian wheatmen agitated for a railroad over the frozen muskeg to Churchill. In 1931 they got it, at a cost of some $30,000,000, in the form of a 510 mile spin from The Pas, Manitoba, prime junction on the Canadian National Railways. Another $25,000,000 went toward fitting up Churchill as a port, building a 2,500,000-bu. grain elevator (TIME, Sept...
...developed that the Charles is abnormally muddy at this season, so that a layer of silt became deposited upon their respective costumes. Anxious to remedy the faux pas the young man was quick to suggest they retire to his room, where by means of a forceful stream of water from the shower fixture overhead they removed the silt from their clothes-simultaneously...
...spring, when the first boat goes down the river, the doctor goes with it to visit his brother, who runs the biggest hospital in Montreal. Called on for a speech at a medical banquet, Dr. Luke commits a faux pas by using the opportunity to demand a hospital for Moosetown. When he gets back, he finds that the trading company which runs Moosetown has put the town sheriff on his track for practicing medicine without the license he is too poor to pay for and has installed a resident physician of its own. It appears to Dr. Luke that...