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...would want young men," said Capt. Robert Bartlett, last week, "tenderfeet, enthusiastic as hell . . . college trained men . . . with their background and enthusiasm they would know what to do when we got there." He was discussing his plan to man a saucer-shaped ship, sail it north of Bering Strait, let it freeze into the ice, then wait three or four years while the ship drifted with the ice floes over the North Pole and down into the Atlantic Ocean...
Captain Sir George Hubert Wilkins with his airplane pilot Lieutenant Carl Ben Eielson, last week, discovered that Graham Land is separate from the Antarctic continent. Between them is an ice-covered strait. Graham Land itself seems to be fringed with an archipelago. Between a great plateau to its north and a double mountain chain to its south is a broad expanse of white, which may indicate a valley or another strait...
Tangier. Another signal triumph for Benito Mussolini was the success of his emissaries, last summer, in negotiations with representatives of Spain, France and Great Britain respecting control of the internationalized port of Tangier, just across the strait from Gibraltar. Without entering into details it may fairly be said that Il Duce obtained all that he sought and secured potent Italian participation in the policing and control of Tangier...
Mercedes Gleitz, London stenographer who said she swam the Strait of Gibraltar and the English Channel, tried to swim from Ireland to Scotland, 21%½ miles across the North Channel from Donaghadee to Port Patrick, but couldn't make...
...lighthouse keeper carried their first message by walking across the Strait ice to the telegraph station at Lourdes de Blanc Sablon. A message went to Point Armour, where one William Barrett operated the wireless station. That first message announcing the Atlantic crossing was for the North German Lloyd steamship offices in Manhattan. The line had provided money for the flight...