Word: reindeers
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...Mars and Jupiter and of which the largest is Ceres (diameter 480 mi.). ¶Heard the Commission on Meteorites strongly urge the Soviet Government to make further study of the Siberian fall of 1908, heaviest fall of meteorites in history, which scorched trees for miles around, annihilated 1,500 reindeer, dammed the Ognia River. The French Government was also urged to push thorough examination of the Chinguetti, an iron meteorite 325 ft. long and weighing possibly a million tons, which a French expedition stumbled on in 1921 in the wilds of Western Africa...
...sunset one evening, strode a young (24) adventurer named Dave Irwin. Blond, husky Adventurer Irwin was finishing a 2,600-mi. dog-team trip from Aklavik, on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. In 1931 he set out from Alaska to help Herdsman Andy Bahr drive 3.000 reindeer across Northern Alaska and the Mackenzie River Delta to Canada (TIME, Jan. 7).* Quarreling with other drivers two years ago, he packed up a sledge, mushed off eastward alone. By dint of catching fish bare-handed to feed himself and his dogs, he reached the North Magnetic Pole on Boothia Peninsula last...
...Three months ago Herdsman Bahr delivered the reindeer, reduced to 2,300 head, to the government station on the Kittigazuit Peninsula...
Carl Lomen, who had a quarter million reindeer in Alaska, solved their problem by contracting to deliver 3,000 head to the Kittigazuit Peninsula, just east of the Mackenzie Delta. Andy Bahr solved Carl Lomen's problem by agreeing to lead the drive. On Dec. 16, 1929 after months of preparation and a reconnoitering trip by airplane, he set out from Naboktoolik, small Eskimo village in western Alaska, with three Laplanders, six Eskimos, a medical attendant, a geographer, 39 sleds piled with supplies and 3,000 reindeer. His goal lay 1,200 miles away over desolate mountains and across...
...reunited herd reached the Mackenzie Valley, settled down for a winter freeze before making the 60-mile dash across the Delta. Last January the final drive began. Half way across a blizzard scattered the herd, sent them scampering back. When they had been rounded up again neither men nor reindeer felt like making another...