Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...were building or authorized for our Navy 123 vessels: and then hundreds of submarine chasers and other small-type vessels and a number of destroyers have been completed, and contracts are now existing for more than 900 vessels. We have the greatest wireless service in the world, stretching from Alaska to Panama and to Hawaii and the Philippines.--TREASURY DEPT., BUREAU OF PUBLICITY...
...University, as compiled by the University Register, shows Massachusetts leading all other states by more than 500 per cent. New York is second, Ohio third and Pennsylvania fourth. Every state in the Union, with the exception of Mississippi and Wyoming, is represented in the list, as well as Alaska, the Canal Zone, the District of Columbia, the Territory of Hawaii and Porto Rico. The total for the University is 2,998, as opposed to 4,451 last year...
...prominent member of the class of 1894 and died on April 22, 1914. In college he both rowed on his class crew and played on his class football team for three years. After graduation he was engaged in business in Boston but found time to make hunting expeditions to Alaska, Europe and Canada. He continued much interested in rowing and was active in promoting the interest of this sport in the United States...
...depicted forcefully the conditions of the United States at the present time in its contented attitude of settling back to grow rich and its "corporal's guards which chase from Alaska to Vera Cruz" with no definite purpose; the fleet with its individual ships in good order but lacking as "a fighting unit." All of which, he said, showed the inconsistent lack of detail. Congress did not go far enough, it was willing to do as much as its intelligence could comprehend but there it stopped...
...Canal cannot be protected against the operations of a first-class military power by the present or proposed garrison we contemplate placing there without the power and ability to reinforce it rapidly by troops from the United, States, is equally manifest; that we can retain our valuable Territory of Alaska in its isolated position against an enemy with any military power by placing there a garrison of less than 500 men verges on the ridiculous, unless we have ample forces at home to occupy that territory in the very earliest stages of an impending conflict. As regards the Hawaiian Islands...