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...single-motored Liberty. One of the Fokkers was burned up in January during its final tests at the Ford experimental field near Detroit. The other Fokker (the Detroiter) and the Liberty plane?dubbed Alaskan?had reached Fairbanks safely. Snowplows and road-rollers had labored for days ironing out a take-off and landing field in the wrinkled snow-carpet covering Fairbanks. But the day of the first attempted flights, Reporter Hutchinson of the North American Newspaper Alliance was killed by a whirling propeller (TIME, March 22, THE PRESS...
...would establish an air base between Etah, Greenland (the expedition's intended boat base) and Cape Columbia, Grant Land (intended take-off for flights seeking the Pole and fabulous Crocker Land). Here gasoline, food, a radio-operator, smoke-bombs, an Eskimo and dog (for forced retreat), would be left...
...month's rations, 157 miles from the Pole, 450 miles over the Polar ice from the nearest hope of rescue, without dogs, too far north for animal food. They must choose between walking and striving to lift a 6-ton plane onto the ice and clearing a take-off over corrugated ice which might split at any moment. They chose the latter...
...official log of Plane No. 2, recently made public for the first time, records the progress of the flight since the take-off on Mar. 9, and gives the complete itinerary projected for the last lap. The most hazardous point in the entire schedule is the stop in Greenland. Naval officers expressed apprehension as to the ability of the airmen to land on the ice with pontoons. Ice conditions are to be feared, as it will be impossible for the Navy to afford protection for the last 150 miles of the trip...
...COLLECTOR'S WHATNOT-Van Loot, Kilgallen and Elphinstone - Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). If you have ever bickered with an antique dealer for a genuine rat-tail spoon or a Jacobean chair that was made in Newark, you will enjoy this hilarious take-off on antiquing and antiquers. The Collector's Whatnot does for the antique-mania what The Cruise of the Kawa did for the South-Sea-craze...