Word: siberia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Buried. Lieut. Carl Ben Eielson, famed polar flyer; during a snowstorm at Hatton, N. Dak. His body had been brought back from Cape North, Siberia, where he crashed in a blizzard flying to aid an ice-locked furship (TIME, Jan. 6 et. seq.). Two days late for the burial, an airplane from the stormy East brought Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Eielson's comrade on many a frigid flight, to lay a wreath, gaze at the white grave, fly away...
...this is done through the organ, Cheesekraft. A typical Kraft-talk by "J. L.": "I do not suppose anyone else ever planned a cheese business to live through the ages . . . after we are gone, there will be Kraft salesmen trekking the veldt of Africa, braving the snows of Siberia and battling the superstitions of Mongolia-all earnestly striving to increase sales, which by that time will be far in excess of a hundred million...
Last week after grim weeks of combing the shattered wreckage of their plane (southeast of Cape North, Siberia), the bodies of Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland were found by a party of 19 Russians under the direction of Commander Slipenov. Deep in snow and ice lay the bodies, frightfully crushed from the terrific impact of the speeding plane. It had been chartered to unload passengers and furs from the ice bound motorship Nanuk (TIME, Jan. 6). Borland's body was found first, Eielson's several days later. They were taken to the Nanuk, where starts their last...
...Eielson, of Hatton, N. Dak., en route to claim the body of his son Pilot Carl Ben Eielson if and when found in Siberia, was met in Seattle by W. E. Borland, father of Mechanic Earl Borland, who died with Eielson (see above...
...English cotton-spinning manufacturer settled there. He was educated in St. Petersburg schools and at Worcester College, Oxford; served in the World War in the 5th Reserve Cavalry, with the Military Attache of the British Embassy at Petrograd, with the British Military Mission to Siberia. He was decorated with the Czechoslovak Croix de Guerre, the Rus-sian Order of St. Stanislav. Though he was a friend of Katherine Mansfield and corresponded with her for years, he never met her. Other books: Futility, Anton Chekhov, The Polyglots, A Bad End, Eva's Apples, The Vanity Bag, Perfectly Scandalous (a play...