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...equally damaging Recession mounted, Zoopark found its cupboard bare. For three weeks, while drowned animals were buried and wrecked cages repaired, the park had no revenue. Animals were first cut to half rations, then to one third. Ribs began to show. Anna May sickened on mildewed hay. Babe the polar bear became too listless to sway. The Zoo's gaunt camel was too weak to get up off its knees. Said Manager William J. Richards, who had worked a year without salary to make ends meet: "The flood was what broke the camel's back...
...About 50 polar expeditions ago, Lieut. De Long and the Jeannette Expedition sailed from San Francisco to seek the North Pole. This was in 1879. In 1938-after three years of research-I wrote a book about it called Hell...
Meanwhile, the huge floe on which the camp stood had broken off from the polar ice pack, was drifting on a zigzag southward course which veered somewhat to the west (see map), in currents which had been charted previously but whose speed had been underestimated. Some days the drift was six or seven miles. As it entered warmer water, the floe began to break up. Last fortnight a hurricane reduced it to 200 yards by 300. Last week it was down to 50 yards by 70. When the part of the floe on which their tent stood was submerged...
...Navy to back the terrible attempt of the Herald to find the North Pole. But on July 8, 1879. a crude, unwieldy little naval vessel called the Jeannette sailed slowly out of San Francisco, carrying scientific equipment, a crew of 31, including two Herald correspondents, headed for the Polar Seas and sure disaster...
BEYOND HORIZONS - Lincoln Ellsworth -Doubleday, Doran ($3.50). Unaffected autobiography of the 57-year-old Polar explorer, mainly concerned with his Arctic and Antarctic experiences of the last two decades, of which the greatest hardship was his 1926 Arctic flight with Amundsen, matched only by the hardships of dealing with his rich father...