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Airship crew survives Thanksgiving over frozen seas
A humorous adventure features an airship crew stranded near British Columbia on Thanksgiving. They barter for food by capturing wild geese and cooking them, then repair engines and return to New York with salvaged Arctic expedition relics sold to the Metropolitan Museum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Bank
Secretary of the Treasury
The
Treas
England
Germany
Russia
Japan
Italy
Congress
United States
Cuba
Platt
Magoon
Panama
Canal Zone
Augustue W. Ferrin
Alba- Ctross
Aerial Navigation Company
Broadway
Colon
Roosevelt
Stern
Panama Canal
Uncle Sam
Canal
World
Wireless Telegraph Company
Peary
North Pole
South Pole
Hades
Henry
Secretary Taft
New York
Sijinig
Quebec
Matey
Duro
Ayna‘mo
British Columbia
Santos-Dumont
Rhode Island
Metropolitan Museum