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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canada, an impassable barrier of earth, mountain and forest. When his reports were compared with those of his contemporary, Columbus, invincible explorers of Portugal, Spain, France and Britain knew that one must sail beyond or around that barrier to get at the riches of the East. The four-century search for a northwest passage had begun...
...genuine prince. Nothing was overlooked except that the committee neglected to ascertain that the Prince's hobby was paleobotany - of all things. When the train arrived His Royal Highness eagerly scanned the welcoming brass-hats and demanded "Where is Dr. Wieland?" Consternation smote the party and a frantic search for Yale's forgotten man ensued. He was eventually found at his modest Woodmont cottage, seven miles out of town (no telephone) , rushed into his best suit, to Memorial Hall, and into a seat next to the Prince (at the Prince's insistence). The conversation presented pretty tough...
...search for an infallible blind landing system has proceeded now for years with constant view-halloos but never a commercial installation. Whether the Army's new device at last fills the bill was, in the absence of real evidence last week, doubted by most airfolk. Most promising indication was the fact that an integral part of the system is the Sperry gyropilot. This extraordinary device is already capable of so many feats that it is not difficult for some professionals to believe that it can effect blind landings...
...failed. Then the radio went silent and it eventually became apparent that the ship was down somewhere between the Pole and Alaska. Since six weeks' rations were aboard and there is plenty of room to land on the ice, Russian airmen refused to be worried, set out to search from Russia and from Fairbanks. Into the air too leaped Joe Crosson and several others of the eager band of Alaskan flyers whose rescue work in the past has brought them world-wide renown. From Los Angeles, Flyer James Mattern, who contemplates a transpolar flight to Moscow...
...State's Attorney Thomas Courtney hurriedly organized a central Sex Bureau to keep up-to-date records of all men accused of molesting children. Whenever a new case is reported, detectives are to study the records, social service workers observe social causes, psychiatrists give mental examinations, and physicians search for venereal and other diseases. At the end of an investigation the accused will go to an insane asylum if he is a proven psychopath, or be prosecuted for felony...