Word: amundsen
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Into Eagle, after a 500-mile trek from Herschel Island, mushed beak-faced Explorer Roald Amundsen in December 1905, with news that he was three-fourths of the way around the Northwest Passage-goal of explorers since...
Norway was late in joining the squabble. Until last year it had only an unofficial 110-mile ring around the Pole, plotted out by Captain Roald Amundsen when he reached the bottom of the world in 1911. But in January, King Haakon VII brought the coast between the disputed Falkland quadrant and the Australian section under the Norwegian flag, to clinch a twelve-year mapping job backed by Norwegian Whale Tycoon Lars Christensen. Last month impatient Little Führer Vidkun Quisling made up for all lost time by announcing outright Norwegian ownership of the whole Antarctic...
Then the President moved on to Ogdensburg to meet his old friend William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada. They met in the railway car Roald Amundsen in the Rome Yard track at Ogdensburg, while the sun beat down unmercifully outside. Only Secretary of War Stimson witnessed the meeting. Outside laborers stuffed huge hunks of ice into the car's air-conditioning system. A few grizzled chickens grubbed aimlessly among the weeds that all but concealed the adjoining tracks. A group of truck drivers idled about the foot of a monument that marks the site of Fort...
Thousands of moths whirred dizzily around the floodlights, and the heavy dew of midsummer was in the air when a portable ramp was lifted from the baggage car, fitted to the President's Pullman (the Roald Amundsen) and tested. Then a big Secret Service car (District of Columbia license 104) rolled down the cindery hill road from the village, heading a small procession. The villagers, mostly Republicans (they were saying so all evening) rattled a few handclaps as Eleanor Roosevelt, in a loose, flowered green dress, stepped out first and walked around to stand beside the ramp; rattled again...