Word: island
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...used in speed boats, produced the first boats to make 60 m. p. h. in a contest. In designing his early boats, Chris Smith used no blue prints. Instead, he carved out a small wooden model of the hull. With this in his pocket he went to nearby Walpole Island, picked out a likely looking tree for his boat, and carefully watched over its cutting and seasoning. Now there is a factory to turn out his boats by the hundred, but he still likes to get his own hands on the boats in his workshop. Brown and weatherbeaten...
Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd last week flew east 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...
...quake-broken trans-Atlantic cables. Their sonic soundings showed that the ocean floor had moved and shifted the fishing banks. Because of broken cables and congestion of the unimpaired ones it was quicker last week to send many messages from London to Montreal eastward-via India, Australia, Fanning Island, Vancouver...
...while she managed, by weaving baskets and selling them to summer tourists. Then she cooked for a logging camp. Then she took men. Joe Pete grew, watched what was going on loved his mother, took care of the other children, said nothing. When the Lithuanian Jaakkola came to the island, Mabel's degeneration became complete. Two of the children died, Mabel died, Joe Pete went away to school, learned how to help his Ojibway people, helpless before the white man's legal wiles...
Author McClinchey knows the Ojibways and likes them, lives part of every year on the island which is her novel's scene. Born in Sault Ste. Marie (the "Soo") she became a school teacher there, now teaches in the English Department of Central State Teachers College (summer session). Reserved, hard to get acquainted with, Author McClinchey feels natural in the woods, is an expert canoeist, and can handle a launch in a heavy sea. Joe Pete, her first novel, is the Christmas choice of the Book League of America...