Transport: Russians to the Pole

In Moscow one night last week crowds bustled to a theatre to see a new play by one Michail V. Vodopyanov. It was called The Dream and it dealt with a flight to the North Pole. About the same moment Playwright Vodopyanov was actually at the controls of a big monoplane which was actually over the North Pole.

This coincidence was just one detail of a minutely calculated plan on which Russian scientists and aviators have been working for years and which last week came off with perfect precision under the direction of...

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