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...Alaska on a snow-covered field just outside of Fairbanks, with its railroad and clustered wooden buildings, two Fokker monoplanes were finally assembled last week. Captain George H. Wilkins, leader of the U. S. aero expedition which is to fly over the Polar blindspot to Spitsbergen (TIME, March 15, SCIENCE), called to his aides. They were Major Thomas G. Lanphier and Lieutenant Carl B. Eielson, the pilots, and A. M. ("Sandy") Smith. All was set for the first tests. But Captain Wilkins would not commence until the crowd of spectators-newspapermen, townsmen and women of Fairbanks-dispersed. He was afraid...
Like to like and Mr. Mencken to the wilds of Russia, not to undergo the taunts of the Bolsheviki, nor yet to spend a Siberian winter collecting Polar Beariana; but to see his mental meanderings mirrored in the village of Zitlieff. There the peasants, according to the current "Time", administer a justice, the physical counterpart of Menckenism...
Erich von Drygalski, of the University of Munich, for south polar research, a David Livingstone medal...
...will deny the possibility that eventually the Arctic regions will be filled with lanes of human traffic. If Captain Wilkins can fly successfully from land to land across the polar desert, he will hasten the eventuality. That is the great utilitarian purpose of the venture. The sporting and the scientific purposes converge on the Ice Pole, which is farther distant from any port than any other spot in the Arctic, and which for this reason is more difficult of access even than the North Pole itself. Scientifically, there are reasons for supposing that the Ice Pole is surrounded by land...
...National City Bank of New York (the largest bank in the U. S.), who on leaving, assured reporters that bankers would not make private loans to countries which had not funded their War debts to the U. S.; Roald Amundsen lately returned from an airplane visit to polar regions, paying his respects, accompanied by Minister Bryn of Norway; Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, who requested that Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler of the Marines should have his leave of absence extended another year. (General Butler has already had two years' leave of absence for the purpose of making Philadelphia pure...