Word: antarctica
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tall, black-mustached Dean Smith last made front-page news when, in December, he spotted from the air an American Airlines passenger plane which had been lost for more than 48 hours in the blizzard-swept Adirondacks. Oldtime airmail pilot, member of Admiral Byrd's first expedition to Antarctica, Dean Smith has never been a headline flyer, lives quietly with his wife and daughter in East Orange, N. J., flies a Condor sleeper plane between Newark and Buffalo...
Little America, Antarctica, Jan. 29--Men and dogs struggled over 18 miles of ice and snow today, transporting three tons of radio equipment so the Byrd Expedition could "attend" President Roosevelt's birthday ball...
Little America, Antarctica, March 27 (Via MacKay Radio to the United Press)--Alone in the windswept fastnesses of the South Polar regions, Rear-Admiral Richard E. Byrd prepared today to spend the next six or seven months in a tiny hut 123 miles south of Little America...
...Expedition had helped with the script and setting, the producers warned in the program that The World Waits is based on fact "in no sense other than purely creative." Commander Hartley (Blaine Cordner), an affable, scout-masterish publicity hound, is in such a glow over U. S. annexation of Antarctica that he is not aware his men call him a tinplate hero behind his back, or that his pompous planting of flags and food caches has consumed precious time which might prevent the relief ship from getting through the fast-knitting ice. When radio messages from the ship abruptly cease...
...whales breathe is a subject which has interested Scientist Alec H. Laurie of London. Aboard a floating whale oil factory off South Georgia, Antarctica, he sampled and studied the lungs and blood of scores of fresh-killed blue whales. He has reported his findings to Nature. Since whales are air-breathing mammals, Scientist Laurie expected to find, in the blood of whales fresh-killed and captured after diving deep, large quantities of dissolved nitrogen, forced into the blood by submarine pressure. Such was not the case. In most samples there was even less nitrogen than is soluble in whale...