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Then came a radio call from the City of New York, which was preceding the Eleanor Boiling. She was at the ice pack. The ice should have been open. It was solid. Although the sea almost never freezes to more than a seven foot depth, vast blocks had piled upon one another to form a 36-ft. barricade of ice at the mouth of the Ross Sea. It extended 400 miles toward the Ross Shelf ice, on whose edge, at Little America, the Byrd party was waiting. Tantalizing was the 150-mi. expanse of clear water between the shelf...
Hounds: the famed pack of Joseph B. Thomas of Manhattan...
...much persuasion, the elder Lomen took Carl to Nome for the summer. The Nome gold rush was in progress and Lomen Sr. found many a client there while his son prospected the territory. Their visit lasted two years, then father and son returned to St. Paul, but only to pack up the family and move back to Nome. They prospered, the father became Mayor of Nome, the sons became miners...
Eielson Lost? Carl Ben Eielson, most experienced of all Arctic flyers, was probably groping over the ice packs off Cape North, Siberia, last week. Flyer Eielson knows the Arctic as well as the palms of his slim, steady hands, off one of which (the left) the Arctic cold bit a finger one day when his plane was forced down. For several years he piloted Capt. Sir George Hubert Wilkins, explorer, over icy wildernesses. Their greatest exploit, as great a piece of avigation as ever was done, was flying from Point Barrow, Alaska, over converging meridians of longitude and across shifting...
...smile for everyone, an optimist in all emergencies, family and business, adviser to every patron and friend, trustee of every church or hospital loan, executor when men died ?dedicating their souls to God and their estates to the banker! He befriended a poor foreign peddler with a pack on his back. . . . This peddler became a great and successful merchant and when he died, his will gratefully gave his large estate to this banker. When Mr. Harris was buried, nearly every man, woman and child in his county came to drop a flower on his red clay grave. Replace such...