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Fireguards, mountain rangers and volunteers rescued nearly 250 of the others in the next five days. Clambering through 20-ft. drifts to an altitude of 8,500 ft., where the temperature was 10° above zero, they found the hunters bitten by frost and half starved, huddled in small groups around fires. Six days after the storm had broken only three of the trapped hunters were still missing. Separated from their parties when the blizzard broke, they had almost certainly been frozen to death...
...nothing new in this. It is the old story of a Germany hopelessly tangled in a mass of debts and on the verge of bankruptcy. Everyone knows that Germany is unable to pay in full. As a matter of fact by the Lausanne agreement which cut reparations almost to zero the statesmen of the Western World, if not its parliaments, admitted Germany could pay no more...
...they could get. Though they did not reach the Pole, they went 320 kilometers farther north than anyone else had been. Then they had to camp out for the rest of the winter. They got used to cold: when it rose to 18° below Zero Nansen sweated so much in his sleeping-bag he could hardly sleep. On the return trip the dogs died or had to be killed. Once their kayaks, with all their possessions aboard, drifted away from them. Nansen swam after them, just managed to get there...
...barometric pressure prevailing that day before his record would be official. Present plane altitude record of 43,166 ft. was set by Lieut. Apollo Soucek, U. S. N. in 1930. Wearing electrically-heated goggles. gloves, shoes and clothing. Pilot Unwins encountered a temperature of 68° below zero. He was equipped with oxygen breathing apparatus. At the top of his climb the gasoline ran out. Pilot Unwins volplaned safely to a ploughed field...
...constantly demonstrates new holds to his drunken friend Tony (Skeets Gallagher). Learning that Lola Carewe (Mayo Methot), a blackmailing night club hostess, has had her life threatened, he takes Tony and six detectives to her apartment, mounts guard. Sitting in a circle of detectives Hostess Carewe awaits the zero hour, listens nervously to appropriate wisecracks from drink-befuddled Tony. Promptly at 12:01, the appointed hour, she screams, drops dead...