Word: straits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rescue Machinery. Hampered for weeks by fog over open water in the Bering Strait, the rescue machinery assembled to deliver Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland, lost since Nov. 9 (TIME, Dec. 9), began to rustle last week with activity in Nome, Alaska...
More trivial things than torn theatre posters have caused serious riots in Tangier. Diagonally across the strait from British-owned Gibraltar, Tangier is nominally under the rule of boyish Sidi Mohammed, Sultan of Morocco. Actually it is ruled by an unwieldy international board composed of a French administrator with Spanish, British and Italian assistants. International feeling is high; Administrator Paul Alberge sent detectives to watch the alley between the French and Spanish cinemas...
...sure. They would fly from Chicago to Milwaukee, make a courteous gesture to Leif Ericsson's statue there, go across Canada to Cape Chidley at the northernmost tip of Labrador, skip over water but in sight of land to Cape Walsingham on Baffin Island, jump across Davis Strait to Mt. Evans, Greenland. From Mt. Evans they would cross the Greenland ice cap to Angmagsalik and then over water to Reykjavik, Iceland. From Iceland they would try for Bergen, Norway, stopping at the Faroe or Shetland islands if necessary, and from Bergen to Copenhagen to Berlin. Then they would...
Asia and Back. All alone, Parker Cramer took off last week from Nome, Alaska, flew out over ice-filled Bering Strait, dropped packages at Cape Wales and on Diomede Island, reached East Cape in Siberia, returned to Nome: 400 mi. roundtrip. Next flight: from Nome to New York (not non-stop...
Criticisms. Europeans grew increasingly fearful, last week, lest what they persisted in calling the "Morgan-Young Bank" should turn out to be a glittering gold and silver U.S. strait-jacket for European finance. The dread lest a controlling interest in the new Bank should be vested in Wall Street would not down, last week, even when Mr. Thomas W. Lamont of No. 23 Wall Street (The House of Morgan) solemnly assured correspondents that such fears are baseless...