Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coal to Detroiters. Having left school early, he says he got his education by ''going and seeing things." Twelve years ago, convinced that it is a good thing for boys to go and see things, he rounded up a trainload of youngsters, set out to show them Alaska. Every summer since then Mr. Buchanan and 50 or 60 boys have journeyed across Canada to Vancouver, sailed up the coast to Skagway, spent several weeks touring Alaska, climbing glaciers, panning for gold...
Many an observer has pointed out that past U. S. depressions were relieved by mass migrations to the frontier, that the present depression is uniquely acute because that safety valve is gone. But there is one last U. S. frontier: Alaska. A few hundred discouraged miners who have turned to farming produce only a small portion of Alaska's food. The rest, $6,000,000 worth per year, is imported. Meantime, U. S. farmers plow under their crops, kill livestock to prevent a surplus. Last January, FERA officials put these facts together, produced their most ambitious rural rehabilitation scheme...
...scheme: to transplant strapped U. S. farm families wholesale to southern Alaska's Matanuska Valley, whose 76,000 tillable acres now support only 117 families. It was decided to send about 1,000 people (200 families) first, follow them with more if the plan worked. The transplantees had to be used to hard winters, so state relief workers in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan were detailed to call for volunteers. Out of 6,000 applicants they picked farm families who had long been on relief, in which father & mother were young, sturdy, courageous. Early last week an advance guard...
Chief of the colony will be Don L. Irwin, general manager of the newly formed Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corp. A lanky, pleasant Kansas State Agricultural College graduate, he was a successful Wyoming rancher until the Government sent him to head its Agricultural Experiment Station in Matanuska Valley three years ago. Of his Utopian project, Chief Irwin said last week: "Almost the first job will be to clear out the mosquitoes. They are the chief handicap...
...better in 1930, the profane, pale-eyed Irishman unloaded his stocks. ("Sell 'em," said he. "They're not worth anything.") The commodity in which Ben Smith is always bullish is gold. Only U. S. director of Mclntyre Porcupine gold mines, he has a large stake in Alaska Juneau, carries a miniature gold brick in his vest pocket. Ben Smith has other loves, including shellac, white pepper and New York Ship-building Co. Last week Wall Street was not surprised to learn that Ben Smith had also taken a flier in biscuits...