Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus last week the status and spirit of the New Deal relief colony in Alaska's Matanuska Valley was reported by colonists' telegrams to President Roosevelt, Relief Administrator Hopkins, Senators Couzens, La Follette and Schall, Governor...
...Alaska, 195 mi. up the winding Copper River Valley, is Kennecott, a raw mining town sprawled on the edge of what was once the richest copper mine in North America. Alexander Baranof, first Governor of Russian America, bought copper from the Kennecott district Indians in the 18th Century to cast a bell. A hundred years later two grizzled sourdoughs stumbled upon what looked like grass on the mountainside at Kennecott, found pure copper ore. A taciturn young engineer named Stephen Birch bought their claims. With backing from Daniel Guggenheim, a railroad was pushed up the Copper River Valley...
Last week every newspaper in Alaska headlined an announcement by Kennecott's President Earl Tappan Stannard that the Kennecott mine would reopen this week, hiring 250 workmen. Copper prices are not much better than they were when the mine was closed but President Stannard felt he could make his profit from the mine's byproducts, silver & gold...
Back from four months of exploration in the little known regions of Yukon territory, Alaska, H. Adams Carter of Dunster House, Ex-President of the Mountaineering Club, reported yesterday that the National Geographic-Washburn Expedition had discovered four or five mountains hitherto unknown and uncharted. In memory of England's Silver Jubilee, two of the mountains were named King George and Queen Mary...
...last two years. Twentieth Century will function much as it has in the past. With a better score of hits than any other comparable organization in the industry, its autumn schedule. to attend to which Producer Zanuck was last week returning from a bear-hunting jaunt in Alaska, includes Ivanhoe, Sing Governor, Sing, The Diamond Horseshoe...