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This testimony was heard by Federal Judge Knox before whom Bob was being tried for alleged fraud in connection with his Metal & Mining Shares, Inc. Promoter Bob contributed $100,000 to the Byrd South Polar Expedition in 1929 when Metal & Mining common stock was selling for $23. Last week the stock was worth...
...Very good indeed," replied the Admiral who once named a range of South Polar mountains for generous Promoter...
...wood now very rare, but known for its ability to resist the tearing grind of the ice. On one of her first voyages north with the sealers, she carried as a member of her crew a youth named Ronald Amundsen, whose achievements later became famous in the annals of polar exploration. It was Captain Amundsen who, in 1926, recommended the staunch old ship to Admiral Byrd for the long voyage southward to the Rose. Barrior, where Little America, the base camp of the Antarctic Expedition, was later to be located...
After battling terrific odds in her voyages to little America, her ice-scarred bow and hull give ample evidence of the clutching, ripping fingers of the polar giants that tried to hold the ship back; but there is no visible proof today of the gales she outrode or the times she struggled under tons of sleet and frozen spray that weighted her rail to the water's edge and nearly sank her. So the visitor who views the "City of New York" today sees only a proud, old, ship, a member of a fast-vanishing generation of square-riggers that...
...model faithful in every detail. There are in miniature the wireless towers, the huts, and the paths across the ice over which the loads of supplies and equipment were carried. The lighting within the glass case is so controlled as to produce an exact representation of the polar day, growing gradually in brilliance, then fading away into Antarctic night, when the beacon-lights atop the wireless towers shine out across the frigid wastes...