Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alaska everybody who is anybody knows who Martin Slisco is. North of the Arctic Circle 200 miles as the planes fly from Fairbanks toward Point Barrow the roadhouse and store of Martin Slisco queen it over the 48-house settlement of Wiseman, trading and social centre for the 127 whites and Eskimos who live in the gold & game filled 15.000 square miles of the upper Koyukuk River basin. Since 1910 Bachelor Slisco, 53, has lived in Wiseman. Since 1924 he has owned and operated the roadhouse and store, welcoming the dog-mushers, riverboaters and flyers; playing nightly host at phonograph...
...ticklish job was launched lent a blush of color to the proposed Moscow-San Francisco airline. The route is by far the most direct (6,050 mi. against the present 11,000), involves stops at Archangel. Franz Josef Land, the Pole and the mouth of the Athabaska River in Alaska. Of greater value, however, are likely to be the expedition's magnetic observations, investigations of the direction and speed of ice-drifts, depths of the polar ocean, chemical and physical properties of different strata of water...
...Richard Evelyn Byrd, who flew over the Pole in 1926: "This is a superb undertaking. ... It is my guess that the group . . . will drift over toward Spitzbergen or Greenland and in order to stay at the Pole they will have to move their base periodically in the direction of Alaska...
...land, come August, the 4th Army, consisting of the troops in the 7th and 9th Corps Areas (7th-Minnesota, the Dakotas, Iowa, Nebraska, Arkansas, Kansas and most of Missouri; 9th-Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Nevada. California, the Territory of Alaska, most of Wyoming and part of Arizona) will attack, counterattack, fire off blanks and gas shells into each other's faces and test a theory that a division should consist of 13,000 men instead of 22,000 now that the U. S. army is becoming mechanized & motorized...
...Alaska in winter and spring, everybody talks about the weather and nearly everybody does something about it. Midstream in the ice-locked Tanana River at Nenana, a Government railroad junction, some 60 mi. southwest of Fairbanks, a 25-ft. pole stands upright, frozen fast. "Nenana Ice Pool'' reads a sign that it holds aloft. From the pole a wire runs ashore to the trigger of a time clock. During the early spring, Alaskans pay $1 for a chance to guess the exact day, hour and minute that the ice will move far enough down the Tanana to take...