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...expedition, sponsored by the International Society for the Exploration of the Arctic by means of Aircraft (abbreviation: Aero-Arctic) has a threefold purpose: 1) search for new land beyond Novaya Zemlya, hitherto unexplored; 2) study Arctic meteorology for its effect on weather the world over; 3) study ice conditions for their effect on oceanography in the northern hemisphere...
...Flying mail between Nanking and Ber lin, a plane and two pilots of Eurasia Corp. were forced down in a storm last fortnight. Another of the company's planes flew out to search, sighted the missing craft in the Mongolian desert. But when the rescuers glided low for a landing, a band of tribesmen shot at them, drove them up and away again. The searchers saw no sign of the stranded pilots...
...spectacular, he served governments, corporations, and such personages as Phineas Taylor Barnum, Sarah Bernhardt, Wallace Reid, Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Charles Chaplin, Ethel Barrymore. "September Morn" was his idea. He loosed a lion in a Broadway hotel to advertise the cinema Tarzan. He imported eight Turks and had them search Manhattan's Central Park for a missing Virgin of Stamboul. A member of the U. S. Diplomatic Corps for three years, he worked with Lord Northcliffe in England, d'Annunzio in Italy. Said he after the War: "I got the Italians worked up to such a point that they would...
...engineers, isolated in the Swiss mountains, hate each other. One night one of them pushes the other into a gorge, then leads a search party for him; feels no compunction...
...syrups of the soda fountain." Yet I frequent the soda fountains of Exeter with much regularity. But, being rather sceptical by nature and decidedly curious and feeling that my reputation as a soda fountain connoisseur was at stake, I made rather extensive inquiries, but regret to say that my search was unrewarded, for every storekeeper and proprietor in Exeter answered my demand for Exeter's favorite drink with a blank stare of dismay not unmingled with surprise which showed clearly that they were questioning my perfect sanity, a fact which caused me no little embarrassment...