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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Steamer, railroad, and motor car will carry the party to the town of Mandalay in Northern Burma, which will serve as a base of field operations. Here, with the cooperation of the Burma Division of the Geological Survey of India, the expedition will search the gravels along the banks of the Irrawaddi River for fossils of prehistoric man and animals. Stone Age tools have already been uncovered in this region...
With the construction completed, almost every available inch of University Hall goes into utilization. Further search for office space must entail addition of a new story or digging a cellar and breaking up the Faculty Room which occupies the third and fourth floor in the middle sector...
...skippered by Ned Heard, veteran of Sir Thomas Lipton's challengers. Endeavour II by 58-year-old George Williams. After three days Viva returned to Newport to announce that Endeavour I had once again snapped her towline-this time in a hurricane gale. After a week of frenzied search by the U. S. Coast Guard, Lloyd's of London announced that she had been sighted by the British tanker Amastra 750 miles off the Azores, tolled its historic Lutine Bell at the good news. But from the Amastra by radio came a prompt and puzzling denial. Four days...
...Search Begun...
After 23 days at sea, during which time they had been ashore only at the Hawaiian islands, the search was abandoned. It was abandoned partly because the order came to that effect and partly because, according to Chase, "the sailors wanted very much to go ashore...