Word: polarities
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Died. Captain Otto Sverdrup, 76, Arctic explorer; in Oslo, Norway. He commanded the Fram, Dr. Fridtjof Nansen's ship, on polar voyages in 1893; he and Dr. Nansen were the first white men to cross Greenland; in 1928 he served as expert adviser to rescuers of General Umberto Nobile's Italia expedition and searchers for his friend Roald Amundsen, lost off Tromso while attempting to rescue General Nobile...
...Embarkation of first tourist trip ($2,500 & up) to the Antarctic; from London. Tour: to the Bay of Whales via Galapagos, Auckland & Tahiti, on the 6,000-ton Stella Polaris, with sight-seeing inland by airplane. Famed tourist: Lady Shackleton, widow of the late polar explorer (see SCIENCE...
Married. Bernt Balchen. pilot for Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd on trans-Atlantic and Polar flights; and Emmy Soerlie, of Brooklyn; at Coytesville...
...they are ether waves of very high frequencies, reported Robert Andrews Millikan, chairman of the executive committee of California Institute of Technology, one of the most famed of the great West Coast scientists. If they were electrons, the rays' reception on earth would be influenced by the magnetic polar regions. To test this, Dr. Millikan took the electroscope with which he measures the rays to Churchill, Canada, only 875 mi. from the North Magnetic Pole. He made observations every day and night for a week, found the intensity of the waves the same in Churchill...
...toasted the King of Sweden and Norway in 1836 wine which he had given them. A month later, although food and ammunition were still plentiful, the men were dead. Guessers last week guessed they 1) froze to death; 2) were poisoned by eating bear liver; 3) were killed by polar bears...