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...there on time. After sunrise a woman in a brown fur coat, a Mrs. George A. Barrett, lined up behind him. With satisfaction Citizen Hunefeld surveyed the lengthening queue stretching out along the fence, down the street, around the corner. Fine weather, good spirits and natural curiosity about a new President had brought out thousands of plain people who do not get written invitations to White House functions...
Anne Morgan, sister of John Pierpont Morgan, attending a meeting at the American Woman's Association's Manhattan clubhouse, hung her $3,000 baby lamb coat in the hall, returned to find a shabby fur garment in its place...
Last November the fur ship Nanuk, icebound off Cape North, Siberia, radioed for an Alaskan plane to portage about a million dollars worth of furs to Fairbanks for train shipment, and some people aboard to mainland comforts. With winter on the region, oversea flying was unusually risky. Eielson decided to pilot the plane himself rather than foist the job on a subordinate...
...Teller, a neat village of ten frame buildings, a group of flannel-shirted, khaki-trousered flyers in fur parkas and mukluks, stomped around in helpless patience last week. What planes they had, light open ones, could not ram through the foggy wind wall. But able help was en route. The Coast Guard cutter Chelan landed three Fairchild cabin planes and Canadian crews at Seward, whence they were shipped by rail to Fairbanks. There the Canadians assembled their planes and flew them towards Teller. They undoubtedly can jump the wall...
Manhattan's Henry Fairfield Osborn gave his crushed fedora hat and fur-lined overcoat (it has fancy buttons) to the cloakroom attendant and strolled to the speakers' platform, where he presided as retiring president. (California Tech's Robert Andrews Millikan is the incoming president.) His speech tended to show that man and monkeys are descended from so remote an ancestor that they should not be considered related...