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...Roald Amundsen and five companions in two flying boats taxied along the water and rose in the air. Spitzbergen dwindled behind them, as their heavily-laden craft, fueled for a 1,600-mile trip, with provisions for six weeks, turned northward on a 700-mile trip to the North Pole. They should have wade it in eight or nine hours, they might have returned in as many hours more. But they did not. They kept the world waiting. They might have suffered mishap and be trekking back. They might have descended at the Pole, as they hoped...
...intention to pay a brief visit to the North Pole while he is in that neighborhood next summer. If he does, he may have company. Last week, a radio despatch from the steamer Pram, plowing through cold seas for Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, reminded the world that Captain Roald Amundsen, after cruel vicissitudes (TIME, Nov. 24), had got an aero-arctic expedition underway...
...Roald Amundsen, adventurer in the white wastes of the Earth's poles, knows the vicissitudes of life. Once he immortalized himself by sweeping to the southern tip of the imaginary line on which the world revolves. More recently, only a few months ago (TIME, Mar. 17), he went into bankruptcy, his substance expended in the Arctic. One of his few assets was the schooner Maud which he had left near Alaska to drift across trie pole in the Arctic icepack, while he went adventuring toward the pole by airplane. The failure of the airplane venture...
...Roald Amundsen succumbed last week, not to the rigors of nature, but to the rigors of man. In his native Christiania, he filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy and asked for a public receivership, believing that he is solvent. Some time ago (TIME, July 7, AERONAUTICS) he was unable to pay for two airplanes which he had ordered for a polar flight...
Bankrupt. Roald Amundsen; in Christiania; voluntary. (See Page...