Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franz Joseph) Land constituted one of the most interesting outside connections to us at Little America during 1929-30; when we reported sitting down to supper during the Antarctic summer of continuous daylight, the Russians remarked they were just eating their breakfast in the middle of their Polar night winter season. The purpose of their expedition was to establish an advance meteorological and communication base for the projected North Pole flight of the Graf Zeppelin, which was subsequently canceled. Krenkel himself told us he was German, after our attempts to converse (telegraphically) in other languages had failed; Krenkel was further...
...travel with him to all tournaments. A year ago he borrowed enough money from his employer to enter the Western Open. He won it with a record-breaking last round of 64. According to the standards of professional golf, he has been financially successful ever since. Last winter his average score in the circuit of winter tournaments was 71.63, an alltime record. His failure to climax this by winning the Masters' at Augusta, No. 2 open tournament of the U.S., came when his ball failed by inches to carry a stream. Byron Nelson, following him, gained three strokes...
...began to put their case before the nation. Main purpose of the convention was to decide what might be done about "canned" music. Boss James C. ("Mussolini") Petrillo of the Chicago chapter was out to make national the ban on recording which he enforced locally on union men last winter (TIME, Jan. 4). A.F.M.'s President Josephs Weber of New York may have doubted the wisdom of such drastic action but his hand was being forced. When election of national officers of the A.F.M. is held, Chicago's Petrillo will make a strong challenge for the national presidency...
...sent over the border to an Italian dog farm. Later in the week, one of the monks at the St. Bernard Hospice told United Press that the monks had voluntarily destroyed these three dogs, that eight others will be kept under observation all summer in an enclosed park. Next winter the monks plan to let their dogs "continue working normally...
...winter afternoon three years ago the two lawyers discovered that unused balances of money deposited in Federal Courts disappear into the U. S. Treasury after five years if unclaimed and if the right to the money is not disputed. Realizing that within State boundaries the State is sovereign and that the Federal Government has no escheat powers save in its territories, they probed further, learned that in the custody of the Treasury awaiting disposition was $160,000 in such funds from the District Courts at Philadelphia, Scranton and Pittsburgh...