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After making aerial studies of the mouth of Labrador's Northwest River as a seaplane base possibly superior to Cartwright, the Lindberghs hurdled Davis Strait 400 mi. to Godthaab on the west coast of Greenland. There they met the S. S. Jellinge, a 3,500-ton Danish tramp chartered by Pan American, outfitted as a floating laboratory, sent north from Philadelphia last month. Its research staff is headed by Pan American's Major Robert A. Logan, Canadian War ace who bombed the headquarters of Germany's Prince Rupprecht before the famed Richthofen shot him down. Ten years...
...Dean De Witt Lewis, wealthy Baltimore (Johns Hopkins) surgeon, elected last year. Elected last week to be president for 1934-35 was Dr. Walter Lawrence Bierring. 64, rich Des Moines internist, able diagnostician, a descendant of Vitus Jonassen Bering for whom Bering Strait was named. Dr. Bierring reads, writes and fondly speaks Danish, German, French. His polyglot library is one of Des Moines' most extensive. He takes a brief case full of books on his frequent lecture tours of Iowa, reads as his chauffeur drives him between communities. Des Moines hostesses call him a ''natural," conversational entertainer...
...cruisers and trawlers and even two submarines (good at snaking through drift ice) patrol the course. Last link in the preparations which held up the take-off last week was establishment of the base at Labrador. The supply ship Alicia had not yet crashed the late icejam from the Strait of Belle Isle to Cartwright...
...value in mid-October) is carried by ships out of Canada's new artificial Port of Churchill on Hudson Bay (TIME. Sept. 14, 1931). Last October the 5. S. Bright Fan, out of Churchill with 253,000 bu. of wheat, steered off her course in Hudson Strait, her compass swung untrue by the nearby north magnetic pole. She crashed into an iceberg and went down in three hours in 900 ft. of water. Canadians feared the Bright Fan's end would make Lloyd's drastically step up insurance rates on Churchill cargoes. But last week Canada...
...jealous of their individual companies. Though big lines in Italy. Germany, Japan and the U. S. have pocketed their pride and combined for economy (TIME, Nov. 7), Liverpool's stubborn operators are still fighting it out from Land's End to Sandy Hook, from Manchester to Sunda Strait. Last week what observers thought was a step toward a truce was taken when Frederick William Lewis Lord Essendon, 62-year-old chairman of Furness, Withy & Co., was elected head of White Star Line (Oceanic Steam Navigation Co.). John Pierpont Morgan the Elder in 1902 tossed White Star into International...