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...Lakehurst, a powerful dirigible is under construction, intended to sail over the Pole to Europe. Naval officers on board will complete the map of the vast polar spaces by means of photography. And regular commerce across the Pole is looked for soon after...
...from the point of view of the promoter, there can be no competition from railroads, steamers, bicycles or automobiles. Across the oceans, flying craft must compete with the swift, sure liners. Over land, railroads continue to monopolize most of the traffic. But across the frozen areas of the polar regions, the aircraft must be unchallenged, unless, as suggested by Simon Lake, the submarine provides some grotesque rivalry...
...hereafter will be preserved for succeeding generations exactly as it happened. Great masterpieces of literature, coming upon the screen are securing for themselves a clientele which the printed word has never given them. In our own neighborhoods at a trifling expense any of us may be carried to polar or equatorial regions where only explorers heretofore have penetrated. The humblest backwoodsman whose vision might otherwise not have gone beyond his country now may watch the march of events in distant hemispheres pass by the door...
Wrangel Land is an icebound bit of Arctic prairie about the size of the island of Jamaica, and has had no qualifications for the hall of fame save some granite cliffs and a considerable population of polar bears. But hitherto the Island had been regarded as American property by right of discovery, inasmuch as two expeditions from America landed there, in 1881, took possession in the name of the United States, surveyed and mapped the country, and then sailed away leaving notice of their discovery on shore in a bottle. This action was regarded as particularly important, as the Island...
...conquest or by discovery and occupation, and discovery surely gives the United States a prior and just claim on Wrangel Land. Stefansson, on the other hand, states that the United States has allowed her claim to lapse by not occupying her possession and exercising dominion over it,--and the polar bears. And we are forced to admit that the statement is true, since the United States has not, to the best of our knowledge, established there a Governor General and stuff, nor yet, strangely enough, attempted to colonize it or turn it into a naval base...