Perry's Dash to the North Pole
You Are There · April 10, 1949 · 29 min · 3,318 words
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John Daly aboard the Fury's further exploring ship Roosevelt, frozen fast in the Arctic ice pack of Cape Sheridan's land. Just about for the most weeks of land in the rest of hemisphere. It is one hour before noon here, April 6, 1909.
And we're going to make another attempt to establish radio contact with Commander Robert E. Fury. Commander Fury, Matt Hinton, and therefore F-2-Bode drivers were left at bomb six days ago. Commander estimated his position then to be 130 miles south of 90 degrees north latitude.
Unless unforeseen emergencies have arisen, the party should have covered that distance by now, and Commander Peery should be at or somewhere near his great goal. A goal no man has ever obtained before, but top of the earth, the north pole.
If all has gone according to plan, Peery has been travelling approximately 25 miles a day. His last recorded position was 87 degrees, 47 minutes north latitude. Eight-year-old state, setting for 99. The polar eclipse, going to Rose Belt.
You are the man aboard the Rose Belt, wait. As Commander Robert E. Perry, Matthew Henson and four Eskimos dash across the frozen Arctic Sea, toward the unconquered North Pole. CBS takes you back 40 years to the climactic hour of a great scientific adventure.
All things are as they were then, except for one thing. When CBS is there, you who's directed by Robert Louis Chaeon is based on historical fact-in-fotation. So fact-in-fotation. So fact-in-fotation. So fact-in-fotation. And now the polarik, wearing a ship, rosebell, and jonbell, and jonbell, and jonbell, and jonbell.
So valiantly, for over being so valiantly, for greeze, not latitude, the nori is not latitude. So no need to go. When we last talked to the commander, he told us that he would not broadcast again until he had either reached the pole or had been forced to turn back. He said he hoped he
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