Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tiny village of Perryville, Alaska normally harbors 92 Indians and two white schoolteachers. Last week 80 of the Indians had gone north to their seasonal fishing grounds. The remaining 14 souls in Perryville were not happy to be there. For Mt. Veniaminof, only 15 miles away, was blowing its head...
...Alaska's most spectacular volcanic display in more than a decade, the crater vomited flame to a height of 1,500 feet, acrid smoke and hot ash to a distance of five or six miles. The smoke pall was so thick in Perryville that lamps had to be lighted in the daytime. The earth rumbled ceaselessly. Coast Guard commanders in the Bering Sea reported ashes falling 35 miles from the mountain, volcanic dust 100 miles away. In Unalaska, 350 miles from the volcano, chandeliers shook...
...George Horace Gallup, punditical pollster of public opinion, last week received at his home in Princeton, N. J. a postcard asking him to choose among the ten leading Presidential candidates. It was from Emil Edward Hurja, the sly, plump ex-newspaperman from Michigan and Alaska who used to dope elections expertly for the Democratic National Committee and now operates his own "political analyst" office in Washington, D. C. for business clients. Mr. Hurja quizzed 149,999 persons besides Dr. Gallup-some in every U. S. county-by postcard and personal interview. Leaders in his poll were Mr. Hurja...
...noted traveller and director of the New England Museum of Natural History, Henry Bradford Washburn, Jr. '33, will speak on his explorations of Mount St. Agnes and Mount Sanford, Alaska, tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the Institute of Geographical Exploration...
Main U. S. interest in Bolivia is still tin. The U. S. imports about 45% of the world's tin, has no mines in her own boundaries, a small one in Alaska. Basic war material, indispensable for the manufacture of bearings, tin travels far to reach its biggest market. There are big smelters in the Malay Peninsula, in The Netherlands and Great Britain, but the small smelters of the U. S. refine only a minute proportion, and Bolivian tin reaches the U. S. after a trip to Britain. Facing a possible war shortage, Bolivian tin has figured largely...