Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LAST SURPLUS GOES TO SMITHSONIAN," read a streamer headline. "Weather: Friday, probably followed by Saturday." Lead story concerned a Federal resettlement project. "Twelve hundred inhabitants of Alaska's Yukon Valley, discouraged by the failure of gold mines in the vicinity, yesterday arrived in New York City and began colonizing the vast wastes of the Empire State Building," related the Bawl Street Journal. "By nine o'clock last night all the pioneers had staked out claims on the plateau-like stretches between the fortieth and eightieth parallel. Little watch fires gleamed in hundreds of windows while hungry bond...
FROM a unique beginning 14 years ago with six students and a faculty of the same number, America's farthest north university, the University of Alaska, today has an enrollment of 200 from 19 states and two foreign countries. COLLEGIATE DIGEST presents here exclusive scenes of students life at this young but flourishing institution, one of the United States 69 land-grant institutions of higher learning
Adams Carter '36, Arthur B. Emmons 3rd, ocC, Charles S. Houston '35, and William F. Loomis '36 are the men who, with T. Graham Brown of Cardiff, Wales, and Noel E. Odell, also a Britisher, will represent the Club. Carter has climbed extensively in Alaska, Emmons was a member of the Moore-Burdsall Expedition in the summer of 1934, and Loomis has climbed in Alaska, the Alps, and British Columbia. Brown, a noted English Alpinist, was a member of the Foraker party and Odell was one of the group which made the attempt on Everest in 1924. Odell and Brown...
...Wheeling, W. Va., the Louisville, Ky. and the Reno, Nev. exchanges. On the Richmond Stock Exchange Virginians dabble in tobaccos, local utilities, Southern bank and insurance shares. The Seattle Stock Exchange is divided between mining issues and Pacific Coast industries like Jantzen Knitting (bathing suits), Carnation Co. (milk) and Alaska Pacific Salmon...
...There are no Stock Exchanges in Puerto Rico or Alaska...