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Show Fur Trappers Kept in Touch With the World The Hudson's Bay company, one of the oldest of trading companies, is taking steps to keep some of the world's loneliest men In touch with civilization. Its trappers spend the winter In the far-away Arctic regions, re-gions, many of them three or four weeks' Journey from the nearest post at which supplies can be obtained. Now an airplane service has been Instituted to care for these lonely men. In the past they have come into contact with civilization often only once a year, during their annual an-nual visits to the company's trading posts, and supplies have been taken to them during the summer by trading trad-ing ships. Now they will be within three days' journey of the great cities of Canada, from which the 800 horse-power airplanes will set out, bearing malls and newspapers, food and clothing. Each airplane can carry three tons. The machines are fitted with skis, which enable them to land on snow or ice. Besides taking goods to the trappers they will bring back furs. |