Word: transpolar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilkins was second in command of my polar expedition which began in 1913," said Stefansson. "The significance of his recent flight lies in the fact that he has demonstrated the feasibility of transpolar flights. Meteorologists have long recorded the comparative absence of fogs and storms in the Arctic, and it is my firm conviction that the air routes of the future between such points as New York and Pekin, or Seattle and London, will be mapped over the Arctic...
...Lieutenant Riiser-Larsen, Major Scott (their English pilot), Lieutenant Mercier (their French pilot), Norsemen and Italians and one young female, Titina their mascot terrier ? the personnel of the good airship Norge as she soared above the Ciampino Airdrome to begin the first leg of her Rome-to-Nome transpolar flight...
...department stores (Gimbel's and Wanamaker's), who, last year, sold hundreds of thousands of "transpolar" post cards to help Amundsen finance his flight, received word from him that he had indeed taken the post cards with him to within 157 miles of the Pole, and had been able to bring many of them back with him despite the wreck of one of his planes. Fixed with special stamps, these post cards would be forwarded to their purchasers at once...