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...present expedition was Denmark's greatest. Backed partly by private, partly by government funds. Dr. Koch steamed out of Copenhagen in June 1931 with 66 geologists, zoologists, geographers, meteorologists, cartographers, radiomen; 54 dogs, eight motorboats, tons & tons of supplies...
Besides the 100 men in the planes, some 300 men on land and water are engaged in helping the squadron to cross and recross the ocean. Every scheduled stopping point and an emergency station at Greenland will be manned by crews of meteorologists, radiomen, mechanics. About 15 cruisers and trawlers and even two submarines (good at snaking through drift ice) patrol the course. Last link in the preparations which held up the take-off last week was establishment of the base at Labrador. The supply ship Alicia had not yet crashed the late icejam from the Strait of Belle Isle...
...lead late this month to the Chicago World's Fair. The 6,280-mi. flight will be made via Iceland, Greenland and Montreal in daily hops, the longest of which is 1,560 mi. from Iceland to Labrador. Last week an advance squad of ten Italian mechanics and radiomen left Copenhagen for Reykjavik to set up an overhaul base for the armada. Three airplanes arrived at St. Johns, Nfd. for transshipment to another base at Cartwright, Labrador...
...apparently misinformed about the hour of the NBC broadcast, which was 8:45 p. m. He fussed with his beard, rustled his notes and twinkled professionally at Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament and Banker Jackson Eli Reynolds, present to sponsor and introduce him. At length, when the radiomen, signalled ready and Banker Reynolds made the necessary gestures, the whiskery, long-shanked Irishman arose and began...
...Robert Burns cigars. In a study of radio advertising's effectiveness in 1931 Professor Robert F. Elder of M. I. T. reported that Robert Burns had 25% more smokers in radio homes than in non-radio homes. This year he reported that the advantage had increased to 260%. Radiomen think that Guy Lombardo and his orchestra, also on the General Cigar program, deserve praise for this increase as well as Burns & Allen...