Word: sails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sail passed here in April; may return...
...months the Jeannette sailed north. A reconditioned yacht, fitted for Arctic service by a sheathing of heavy planks, she could make four knots with her engines, six with her sails in a good breeze. But under sail she could scarcely be managed, and her engines used five tons of coal a day. Owned by Bennett, she had been commissioned by the Navy. Bennett paid the expenses of the trip although naval officers were in command and even the correspondents sailed as U. S. Navy seamen. Naval engineers shook their heads over the Jeannette, reported skeptically that "so far as practicable...
...River pours into the Arctic. Of a party of 14 men, including Commander George Washington De Long, only two came through alive. Nine, after incredible hardships, were almost within reach of help when they starved. Another group of eight was lost in a storm within a day's sail of safety. Ten men under Chief Engineer Melville stumbled on a native village, set out to rescue the others, found only their bodies and the disconnected record of their suffering written in their journals and their emaciated bodies...
...attendants, road maps, Chamber of Commerce handouts. They race past the biggest factories on earth, rarely pausing to wonder what is made in them. They look out across scenery unparalleled, but only occasionally know the names of the mountain peaks or yawning canyons that take their breath away. They sail through little towns where battles have been fought, insurrections planned, U. S. history made, but usually see only what lies beside the highway as they watch for crossroads and glance at the rear-view mirror to see if a cop is overtaking them. There are few books that can tell...
With the Normandie due to sail from Manhattan at 11 a. m., Biographer Emil