Word: antarctica
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their summer adventuring, others last week were planning or embarking on new expeditions. Some tales and plans: Antarctic Cruise. Five months ago, owners of the Stella Polaris, a sturdy 6,000-ton steamer, announced in London that Lieut.-Commander J. R. Stenhouse would take a group of tourists to Antarctica. Last fortnight, a pleasant-faced woman engaged passage for the cruise. She was Emily Dorman Lady Shackleton, the lady whom the late gallant Sir Ernest Shackleton left behind him for the third and last time, when he embarked on the Antarctic trip that killed him nine years ago. She wanted...
...their newspaper is the country's foremost daily recorder of expeditions to remote spots upon the earth and off it-cloud-piercing peaks, profound caverns, world's ends, experimental rocketeering. Last week at the New Jersey Newspaper Institute, the man whom Messrs. Ochs & Wiley sent to Antarctica to write daily rhapsodies about the Byrd expedition, eloquent Reporter Russell Owen, explained: "The newspaper in this age of uneconomic unhappiness and social unrest has discovered in the modern' explorer and aviator an excellent anodyne to our disappointing and humdrum life. Ephemeral their exploits may be, but for the time...
Smith's Record. Dean Smith, crack pilot of National Air Transport's New York-Cleveland mail run, took leave of absence two years ago to go to Antarctica with Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. Fortnight ago he got his old job back. Last week he took off from Cleveland with 700 Ib. of mail, rode a tail wind over the Alleghenies and into Newark Airport (412 mi.) in 2 hr. 51 min.-a new record...
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...woman is known to have voyaged to Antarctica. Believing that many a U. S. and British woman wants to go there, Lieut.-Commander J. R. Stenhouse announced in London last week that he will make things as easy for them as possible. Sailing from Southampton next Dec. 10 in "a cozy steamer of 12,500 tons" he will touch at New York and for $2,500 will take anyone who wants to go on an Antarctic cruise...