Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Electra was launched, Lockheed had 200 employes. Last week the payroll was over 1,400, the plant had just been doubled and all factory hands given a 6?-per-hr. raise. Reason: nearly 100 Electras have been sold in the U. S., Rumania, Poland, New Zealand, Yugoslavia, Cuba, Alaska, Venezuela, Mexico and England...
Sargent in Alaska...
First "encyclopedia" of climatic conditions throughout North America and the West Indian region has been prepared by Harvard meteorologists, in cooperation with government scientists of the United States, Alaska, Canada, and Mexico, it was announced yesterday...
...Fairbanks, Alaska, hockey, snowshoeing, skiing, curling, fireworks and a beauty contest were part of an international goodwill and progress celebration which wound up with a 16-mi. all-comers' dog race. Wearing a gold and ivory crown, Beauty Queen Marguerite Lee saw John Allen's team of "Irish Wolves" (Malemute, Irish setter and wolf stock) win, on average time for three heats...
...Recent rains would not cause the glacier to move. Earthquakes or a couple of winters of unusually heavy snows ten years ago, or both, are the cause. The whole area of Alaska is an earthquake zone. Added weight in the ice-filled catchment basin, caused by new snows or an earthquake avalanching down old ice and snows from the higher slopes forces an impulse through the glacier. It is a wave motion and the longer the glacier, the longer it takes to reach the foot. Scientists pooh-poohed a man named Lawrence Martin when he declared right after the Alaskan...