Word: rescuers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Little America, discovered: 1) mountains running north and south between west longitude 150 and 145; 2) indications that the Scott Nunataks, Alexandra and Rockefeller Mountains were island-tops. Meanwhile Geologist Laurence McKinley Gould, looking for earth and rocks to dig, with George (''Mike") Thorne of Chicago (rescuer of Boy Scout Paul Siple last summer and regarded as perhaps the hardiest man in the Byrd Expedition) and John S. O'Brien, tried to climb Liv Glacier up which Byrd's plane flew to the South Pole. Thwarted, they attacked windy Heiberg Glacier...
...with a stranger at the wheel, was streaking away at 60 m. p. h. A tire blew out. The car overturned. All five men were flung into a ditch, unhurt. W. L. Tribbey and Paul Kille, neighbors, drove up, offered help, were greeted with guns. Would-be Rescuer Kille was beaten over the head and shot in the leg. Captives Kinne, Kille and Tribbey were driven through the mountains, dumped in a field, tied up and deserted. They freed themselves, walked to nearby Greer and sent the alarm through three States. Soon the posses were...
Slapper Mitchell. Activities of Banker Mitchell as Wall Street rescuer and Federal Reserve Bad Boy turned upon his offer to put $25,000,000 into the call money market. Inasmuch as call money had reached 20% during the famed 8,000,000 share turnover market-break (TIME, April i), the assurance of available funds had a tremendous moral effect. For traders were not so much worried about a 20% rate as about the fact that even at 20% money was not available. Thus the Mitchell announcement stabilized the market, much to the disgust of the Federal Reserve Board, which...
...White House hurried Captain Einar Paul Lundborg, of the Swedish Royal Flying Corps, rescuer of General Umberto Nobile in the Arctic, to pay his respects to President Hoover. He wore a brand new uniform. Three Washington tailors had made it for him in three hours when his trunk failed to follow him promptly from Manhattan...
...small coincidence, deftly nurtured, came to the lovers' aid. The hag fell in love with the ferocious parent, the runaway wife made it up with her Don, the timid heroine melted into the arms of her rescuer, and they all lived happily ever afterward...