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...fuselage and landing gear. Tuned to a new perfection, loaded with 3,000 lb. of freight* and 290 gallons of extra gasoline, she responded with a twelve-cylinder roar to Pilot Carl B. Eielson's cry for "Contact!" Ice on the runway had melted, leaving about a foot of slush which the Alaskan churned high in the air as she shot forward. Lifting slowly but easily, she circled to a height of 1,000 feet over the landing field, then squared off north-by-west for Point Barrow, northernmost settlement on this continent, where her commander, Captain George Hubert Wilkins...
...estimated content of 36,000,000 tons of ice, of which about 8/9 was. under water out of view. In such cases the guard cutter can only follow until the mass "calves," lets small chunks break off. These accompany the "mother" as "growlers." Then eventually all disappear into slush. The Tampa or Modoc is free to find another...
Whether or not Mr. Thomas' point is true must be left to the courage and the conscience of the individual. His argument, as presented in a play, is formidably tedious. His central character is a Senator, of liberal tendencies, against whom the drys are massing fat rolls of slush money. There is a clergyman in the play whose college son is pictured as a sleuth for the drys, gumshoeing around the college resorts and reporting secretly to his father's party. All this makes earnest but stuffy drama. Actor Thurston Hall plays the leading part, well enough. At the opening...
...them awaiting their escorts. And anyone can easily see how very reasonable is our plea. We do not make it on religious or moral or intellectual grounds but simply on those of sympathy and understanding. Suppose, my friend, that you had to spend long moments in the cold and slush of Cambridge waiting for your chance to eat and dance and that you tried to find entertainment in a shop window only to discover rows of overshoes or a delightful array of collar buttons. I come to the defense of the desperate dears, come arushing. And then...
...steam roller rumbled and puffed through the snowy streets. But it was a new kind of steam roller. Its front looked more like a big boiler, which did not weigh heavily on the ground but pressed against it, sending aloft clouds of fleecy steam. Beneath it ran rivulets of slush. Behind it lay a street cleared of its matted snow. It was a snow melter, invented by John B. Lodge of Beacon, N. Y. The steam drum could be heated to 2,000 Fahrenheit by crude oil under compression burned within...