Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Central Alaska last week came an exciting story. The Black Rapids Glacier, long dying in its valley 125 miles south of Fairbanks, had come to life. Its mile-and-a-quarter face was shoving toward the Delta River and the Richardson Highway (sole motor road from Fairbanks to the coast), rearing ice crests to 500 ft., breaking off great land icebergs which tumbled thunderously ahead onto the mossy valley floor...
Flying from his post at the University of Alaska, Scientist Otto William Geist put up at a little roadhouse two miles down the highway from where the glacier's runoff water joins the Delta. "The roadhouse shook perceptibly and we could hear the distant moaning glacier . . . for all the world like a gigantic dredge." Nearer to, the groaning, booming and thundering was even more awesome. "The glacier is bifurcated. One fork is moving into the other, grinding and crunching at a point five miles back. The intersection is the scene of a giant upheaval. . . . Three days ago we could...
...feet per day." Dismissing the report from Scientist Geist that heavy rains have possibly released soft material along the contact points and lubricated the glacier's groove, causing it to move. Glacialist Washburn explained that glaciers move because of pressure in their catchment basins at their sources. Alaska's glaciers are survivals of the ice age on the North American continent. Washburn believes that Alaska's glaciers are dwindling, will eventually disappear. The Black Rapids Glacier is a case in point...
Left practically nothing by her famed flying husband who crashed with Will Rogers in Alaska 18 months ago (TIME, Aug. 26, 1935), but paid $25,000 by Congress for his world-girdling airplane Winnie Mae, Mrs. Wiley Post enrolled in an Oklahoma City secretarial school...
...Washington as A.A.R.'s president in 1934. It did not take him long to establish headquarters on 17th & H Streets. It is full of cheap, golden oak desks and big wall calendars and the unmistakable fumigant which characterizes railroad offices from the Bangor & Aroostook to the Alaska Railroad. President Pelley's own quarters are decorated with an illuminated testimonial from New Haven employes which he prizes highly. "You can always fool the guys above you," he says, "but you can't fool the guys below...