Word: wien
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eielson Line. Carl Ben Eielson, Polar flyer with headquarters at Nome, Alaska, last week merged with Bennett & Rodebaugh Co. of Fairbanks and the Wien-Alaska Airways of Nome and Fairbanks. Alaska Airways, Inc., the new concern, is a subsidiary of Aviation Corp. of Delaware whose agent Mr. Eielson now is. He will not again accompany Sir George Hubert Wilkins to Antarctica this winter, as planned. Nor is it yet certain that Sir Hubert himself will go, what with Zeppelin activities and the difficulties of getting a Polar pilot as expert, efficient, companionable as Pilot Eielson...
Arctic Relief. With food for relief of the ship Elisif, icelocked at North Cape, Siberia, flew Noel Wien from Nome, Alaska, last week. When helped prepare the Wilkins Arctic flights two and three years...
Announcement was also made of the recent purchase of a large collection of Vienna playbills, comprising some 17,500 specimens, over a period of years from 1800 until the present. The bills are mostly from the old Burgtheatre in Vienna, and the "Theatre an der Wien". This collection is the largest collection of Vienna playbills extant, excelling not only the public collection of Vienna, but also the famous collection of Hofrat Thimig. The collection will probably be ready for exhibition by the middle of next week...