Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most fallow field for air transport is territory where surface travel is slow. Nowhere is it slower than in Alaska, where dogsleds and river boats make a journey to the interior a long-drawn-out hardship. Last week Pacific Alaska Airways, progressive subsidiary of far-flung Pan American Airways, opened a new 700-mi. airway between Fairbanks and Juneau, put on 200-m.p.h. Lockheed Electras which span all Alaska, from Juneau to Nome, in seven hours compared with 34 days by surface travel. New time from New York to Nome by air-boat-air: 4½ days...
...which he had vainly waited half a century. Lieut. Greely returned from the Arctic to find a civilian upped to the captaincy which he had expected. Quietly plugging ahead, he distinguished himself by laying thousands of miles of telegraph and cable wire in the Philippines, China, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Alaska, directing Army relief work in San Francisco after the earthquake of 1906. He had risen to a major-generalcy when he was retired...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Albert J. Guerard 1G, of San Francisco, California, will receive the Harvard Club of an Francisco Scholarship; Madison S. Booler 1G, of Rochester, N. Y., the Townsend Scholarship; James O. Ferrell 2G, of Decatur, Alaska, a University Scholarship; and Stanley B. Jackson 2G, of Madison, New Hampshire, the Wales Scholarship...
Washington, March 24--A thousand "relief pioneers" now receiving government aid will go to new Alaska homes this summer on an Arctic frontier...
When gold was discovered in Bonanza Creek in Canada's Yukon Territory, Skagway became the port of entry for the trek up over White Pass toward sudden wealth. Friends warned Soapy Alaska would be a tough proposition, but to Soapy it looked like his big chance. With his time-tested crew of bunco-steerers, con men and cappers he started a saloon in Skagway, set out to captivate that leaderless town. He did it, but it was hard going. The thugs and strong-arm men he could not control gave Skagway such a bad name that the law-&-order...