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Ousted from Berlin was Chief Commercial Attaché H. Lawrence Groves, 15 years in the service, and Trade Commissioner William T. Daugherty. That left the Berlin bureau halved. The London office was reduced from eleven to two. Offices at Belgrade, Berne, Bucharest, Budapest, Helsingfors, Lisbon, Oslo, Riga were abandoned entirely. Thirteen others were closed throughout the world...
...wings nearly forcing him into the sea. He lost his course, missed England & Scotland completely, discovered himself over the coast of Norway which he was not prepared to navigate. With fuel running low, he picked out a landing spot in an island -Jomfruland-70 mi. southwest of Oslo. There he lost 18 precious hours before getting gasoline from the mainland. Off again, he paused for a brief moment at Oslo, then tore across the Baltic 1,100 mi. to Moscow where he landed three hours ahead of Post & Gatty's time...
Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) was born into a carefully wealthy, sternly cultured family of Oslo, who insisted on his being a good student. With a scientific and mathematical bent. Fridtjof chose zoology as his specialty. That and his love of adventure led him into the Arctic. At 21 he made his first voyage, with the sealer Viking. Six years later he led an expedition across Greenland on skis. When he proposed to his wife he added a condition: "But I must take a trip to the North Pole." In the From, specially constructed to resist ice pressure...
...Gosh." Clyde Allen Lee, 24, a lank youth of Oshkosh, Wis., solicited a few hundred dollars from local merchants to help him fly his Stinson monoplane, with Oshkosh B'Gosh painted on its fuselage, nonstop to Oslo, Norway. The scheme fell through. Pilot Lee flew east, got natives of Montpelier and Barre, Vt., to pay to have Oshkosh B'Gosh erased and Green Mountain Boy painted instead. He picked up a mechanic named John Bochkon, a towheaded Norwegian who used to be known as "The Swede" when he was a night watchman at Curtiss-Wright Airport...
...from Floyd Bennett Field five hours earlier. They were Thor Solberg, 38, who was a motorcycle racer in Norway before coming eight years ago to the U. S.: and Petersen, 35, able radioman who accompanied Amundsen to the North Pole, Byrd to the Antarctic. They too were bound for Oslo. Their plane had been provided largely by Shoeman F. L. Emerson, in whose honor it was named Enna Jettick. Enna Jettick did not get as far as Harbor Grace. In a snowstorm near Darby's Harbor, N. F. the engine failed. Pilot Solberg just missed crashing into a hill, plunked...