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...route to Europe via Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Denmark. Twice he attempted a trailblazer, twice failed: once with Pilot Bert Hassell in 1928; the following year in the Chicago Tribune's Sikorsky amphibian 'Untin' Bowler, which was broken by floating ice and sunk in the Hudson Strait. "Shorty" Cramer continued to preach the feasibility of the route, finally aroused active interest of Thompson Aeronautical Corp. of Cleveland, operator of mail passenger and express routes in Michigan (Transamerican Airlines Corp., subsidiary...
...midair, Robbins & Jones decided not to try to force an overloaded plane into the air for a straight dash across the ocean. Instead they would take off light, fly inland to Alaska, take fuel over Fairbanks from a nurse ship, let the nurse fly with them across Bering Strait and suckle them once more. Then the refuel plane would turn back and the full-bellied Fort Worth would fly down the Siberian coast to Japan to claim the $25,000 purse offered by the Tokyo Asahi...
...English and translated Shakespeare, Joseph Conrad, Walt Whitman into French. Gide's chief claim to notoriety is his sympathetic exposition of homosexuality. His consuming curiosity once nearly cost him his life when he followed an African native marriage procession into the forbidden chamber. Some of his (translated) books: Strait Is the Gate, The Counterfeiters, The School for Wives, Travels in the Congo, The Immoralist...
...proceeding through Alaska. The lines contact those of Canada and Mexico. They are accurate to one part in a million. Last year two Russians visited William Bowie of the Survey for instructions on throwing 30.000 miles of base lines across the U. S. S. R. to Behring Strait, where they will touch the Alaska lines. The work will be done in five years. Then the exact contour of two-thirds of the earth will be known and the suburban home owner may figure almost precisely how far his plot is from the railroad station and the North Star...
Aware is the expedition of the obstacles to such a route, worst of which are on the Canadian side, where perilous Hudson Bay fogs and shifting pack ice beset the air traveler. (No one has ever flown from Greenland across the Davis Strait to Baffin Land.) It is recalled that in 1924 the U. S. Army round-the-world flyers required 19 days to pierce the fogs between Keland and Frederiksdal, on the south coast of Greenland; and that last summer Capt. A. Ahrenberg finally abandoned an attempted Sweden-to-New York flight after taking a month between Sweden...