Word: alaska
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Since 1867 Alaska has produced roughly $1,000,000,000 in gold, silver and copper. Its salmon shipments have been worth as much as $42,000,000 in a single year. . Alaska cost precisely $7,200,000* ($12 per sq. mi.) when the U. S. Government bought it from Russia, since the Muscovites considered it not much better than a huge, bear-infested snowdrift. Last week, this colossal real-estate coup-engineered by Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of State William Henry Seward-was somewhat inappropriately commemorated in Washington, D. C. Payment of the $7,200,000 was made...
...Massachusetts' late Senator Henry Laurens Dawes (1816-1903) can be traced an interesting and plausible historical theory which holds that the cost of Alaska was actually even less. In his collected letters, Franklin K. Lane, Interstate Commerce Commissioner under Theodore Roosevelt, relates being told by Senator Dawes that when negotiations for the purchase of Alaska were quietly started before the Civil War, $1,400,000 was the tentative price agreed on. During the War, when the Confederacy was trying to get British and French recognition, Secretary Seward persuaded Russia, as a demonstration of friendship, to have its warships cruise...
...importance and Levanevsky was given a huge, new, four-motored monoplane with crew of five and cargo of caviar, furs and mail. Having greater speed but less range than the single-motored pioneers of the route, this red and blue giant was scheduled to stop for fuel at Fairbanks, Alaska. By week's end it had not reached this far-northern outpost. Approaching the Pole in sub-zero temperature, it had battled tremendous winds and ice. One motor had failed. Then the radio went silent and it eventually became apparent that the ship was down somewhere between the Pole...
...Governor's words, they woke up shocked and angry last fortnight when the State Board of Fund Commissioners blandly announced the sale to Baum, Bernheimer Co. of the last $3,000,000 worth of building bonds at a premium of $100,000. Governor Stark was vacationing in Alaska...
Henry Bradford Washburn Jr., methodical young mountain climber of Harvard's Institute of Geographical Exploration, son of the dean of the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge. Mass., trekked into Valdez, Alaska with news that on July 9, he and his friend Robert H. Bates of Philadelphia had reached the top of iy,150-ft. Mt. Lucania, highest unclimbed peak in North America...