Word: rossman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arctic plain in north Asia or America. Author Earl Rossman of Black Sunlight (1926) mentions that the last migration of the Alaskan lemmings (Lemmus migripen) occurred...
...Near Point Barrow, northernmost settlement in the Americas and base of the current Detroit Arctic expedition under Captain George H. Wilkins (see TIME, Jan. 4 et seq., SCIENCE) which Rossman accompanies...
BLACK SUNLIGHT-Earl Rossman -Oxford University Press ($1.75). With so many bold men preparing these spring days to explore by air over the icy wastes of the Polar Sea, this journalistic account of life on the upper fringes of Alaska makes a well-timed appearance. As Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson agrees in the preface, it is a good kind of introduction to "the friendly Arctic" for folk who have never been there, since Author Rossman was a tenderfoot when he took his cinema cameras to the Eskimo village of Wainwright* and settled down for the hard winter...
...humans?an Alaskan "sourdough"* called Waskey and Earl Rossman, a U. S. newspaper reporter?would be occupied with a slim skein of wires, a box and two silvery bulbs that occasionally glowed a chilly yellow against the trampled snow. In his head phones, Waskey could distinguish a thin piping note above the crackling static?a note that said another wireless operator back in Fairbanks had heard the preliminary signals of Waskey's small portable radio, was ready to receive and relay to the outer world news of the advance party of the aerial polar expedition financed by the Detroit Chamber...
Waskey and Reporter Rossman told how their sledging party had mushed upland for days into a trackless country of rivers and snow-buried canons, climbing to the top of the mountain range that slopes off north again to the Polar Sea. Well within the Arctic Circle, they had encountered weather severe enough at times to deaden their radio equipment. The going was heavy. Their orders were to set up a more powerful radio sending set when they topped the divide, flash a signal for Captain Wilkins and his aides to twirl their Fokker propellers in Fairbanks and take...