Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Frigid Test. For 6,000 miles, 20 Army planes of the 1st Pursuit Group at Selfridge Field, Mich., will wing a bleak way to Seattle and back again, this week and next, to test the winter endurance of personnel, of new high-powered planes. The planes use skis instead of wheels on landing gear...
Last November the fur ship Nanuk, icebound off Cape North, Siberia, radioed for an Alaskan plane to portage about a million dollars worth of furs to Fairbanks for train shipment, and some people aboard to mainland comforts. With winter on the region, oversea flying was unusually risky. Eielson decided to pilot the plane himself rather than foist the job on a subordinate...
Country dwellers who have a superfluity of cold in winter and a dearth of ice in summer can build themselves a year-round refrigerator. Last week North Dakota's State Agricultural College reported its success with such a refrigerator constructed on plans of the Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture...
...Rusticana. But his grounds for grumbling last week were broad, not personal. He had been commissioned to investigate the condition of opera in Italy on behalf of the Royal Academy at Rome. He had found: that of 100 opera houses only 15 are financially able to present a creditable winter season; that the reason is "the fictitious and arbitrary valuation'' of singers' services. To directors of the Academy he reported that only a drastic cut in salaries could save opera in Italy. He recommended a system whereby, to compensate, artists would be given longer seasons...
This afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Soldiers Field locker building, Head Coach E.L. Farrell will meet all aspirants for the University and Freshman winter track teams to open the season officially...