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...President asked Congress to appropriate $30,000 for U. S. participation in a second Polar year in 1932. During a Polar year meteorologists of many countries are sent into the Arctic to gather and compare atmospheric data, draw new conclusions about the weather. The last was held...
...part from the Pet Department of the "New Yorker." It deals chiefly with the more subtle sides of animal life, but for all of that quite instructive and thoroughly amusing. He solves such problems as horses with tendencies to take up their residence in the drawing room and adolescent polar bears...
...Wilson Observatory astronomers about cyclones on the sun which sweep clockwise across the southern solar hemisphere, counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, Dr. Einstein suggested that a temperature difference between the sun's poles and equator might be the cause of the solar cyclones. Most probably, he said, the polar regions were warmer than the equatorial regions. Having given out an idea for Mt. Wilson astronomers to ponder, he peered at tiny Planet Eros through the Mt. Wilson telescope (see above), went to Los Angeles as guest of Cinemactor Charles Chaplin to see the opening of City Lights...
Died. Captain Otto Sverdrup, 76, Arctic explorer; in Oslo, Norway. He commanded the Fram, Dr. Fridtjof Nansen's ship, on polar voyages in 1893; he and Dr. Nansen were the first white men to cross Greenland; in 1928 he served as expert adviser to rescuers of General Umberto Nobile's Italia expedition and searchers for his friend Roald Amundsen, lost off Tromso while attempting to rescue General Nobile...
...Embarkation of first tourist trip ($2,500 & up) to the Antarctic; from London. Tour: to the Bay of Whales via Galapagos, Auckland & Tahiti, on the 6,000-ton Stella Polaris, with sight-seeing inland by airplane. Famed tourist: Lady Shackleton, widow of the late polar explorer (see SCIENCE...