Word: polarizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they flew north from Fairbanks, they had reached the shore of the Polar Sea with the Alaskan still ticking off miles like a great grey goose and had bountiful fuel still aboard. They had thought it a shame to land, and decided on an unscheduled reconnaissance flight due north over the seething floes. It was snowing a bitter blizzard, but far from shore the sun reappeared and they distinguished, 7,000 feet below, that the smooth sea had changed to a white inferno of hummocks ? the great polar icecap in the center of which is what geographers call...
...feet and more). A wireless from the Colville River announced Smith's return to camp with reindeer meat. Wilkins shipped the relief food, piled on more gasoline and flew at once with Eielson ? carrying 3,800 lb. of fuel to start supplying the Barrow base for their major polar flights. The same afternoon he flashed a report of their safe landing...
...Pole, he must intend to break tradition that he remain "the prisoner of the Vatican." Should Pius XI take but a step across his threshold, the Catholic world would literally be rocked to its foundation. The next heavy type headline made it appear that not even the excuse of polar exploration was being offered by Pius XI. For it read...
Died. Louis Philippe Robert, Due d'Orleans, 57, pretender to the Throne of France, great-grandson of King Louis Philippe of France, son of the late Comte de Paris, head of the House of Bourbon-Orleans, incorrigible spendthrift, North Polar explorer; at Palermo, Italy...
Knowing Capt. Wilkins for a persistent and resourceful man (he plans to live in the polar regions largely on what game can be shot), and knowing Chief Pilot Eielson for an indefatigable flyer (singlehanded he overcame a hundred vicissitudes of the North, flew 60,000 unaccompanied miles in the Alaskan air mail service), U. S. airmen had no doubt that the expedition would be pushed ahead notwithstanding...