Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Been in Alaska Before...
Carter had been in Alaska before, mostly climbing Mt. Crillon, but also skiing...
...Eight cooperating expeditions were to measure the rays in Greenland, Denmark, India, Ceylon, Java, Tibet, South Africa, Eritrea, Spitsbergen, Switzerland. One man was to make records from Peru around the Cape of Good Hope to the U. S. Two Compton men were killed trying to scale Mt. McKinley in Alaska. Dr. Compton himself, with his wife and elder son, set out on a cosmic search that took him to a volcano brim in Hawaii, Mt. Cook in New Zealand, Panama, Peru, covered 50,000 miles. He made an airplane flight within 350 miles of the North Magnetic Pole. When...
...past six months Alaska's 60,000 inhabitants have tucked away 700,000 gal. of alcoholic beverages. Last week, on Repeal's birthday, a group of the more responsible Eskimos at Nome besought the Territorial Board of Liquor Control to make it a crime even to give one of their tribesmen liquor...
...squad had State jobs (TIME, Oct. 21). Pleased by the uproar, officials at Ohio State admitted the fact, while Ohio State publicists ballyhooed the team's new name, ''Scarlet Scourge," announced that requests for Ohio State's football schedule had been received from London, Paris, Alaska, Bombay and Addis Ababa. In its second game, against Drake, Ohio State made a season's record for the number of players used (47) as well as the number of points scored (85-to-7). By that time "Jumping Joe" Williams, sophomore halfback of Barberton, Ohio...