Word: polarizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italia crashes on ice north of Spitsbergen, killing Motorist Vincenzo Pommella, separating Polar Pilgrims into two groups. Eight, led by Gen. Nobile, are left stranded with the wreckage of the cabin. Seven are blown away with the dirigible...
...Polar Pilgrim General Umberto Nobile and crew of 15 leave Kings Bay, Spitsbergen, for North Pole, in dirigible Italia...
...nothing of the crew whom Captain Nobile has abandoned on the Polar ice. As the years pass General Nobile will grow so weary of explaining why he was the first to leave his ship. Those explanations will be sufficient punishment...
Italy's press burst into florid rhetoric. The Nobile disaster had pained and depressed the most patriotic editors, but Ferrarin and Delprete pushed the Polar Pilgrim into obscure corners. Typical of the unrestrained expression of the newspapers was the comment of Lavoro: "It almost seems that today in all the skies of the world can be heard the palpitating of Italian wings; from the overcast skies of the Arctic regions to the scintillating heavens of the tropics is being carried that great magic word, 'Italia,' by intrepid hearts and by robust wings. ..." Somewhat obscurely, La Tribuna mused...
...George Hubert Wilkins and Lieut. Carl B. Eilson, polar pilgrims, stood on the deck of the Stavangerfjord, saw the freshly-pressed cutaway of Grover A. Whalen aboard the Macom, knew they were about to receive one of Manhattan's famed, confetti-laden Official Welcomes...