Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only a few summer tourists now go to Skagway, Alaska, but at the height of the Yukon gold rush (1897-98) 75,000 of them tumbled hopefully ashore to seek their fortune or somebody else's. Today Skagway is a ghost town, but one of its ghosts has left his mark-a 30-ft. skull carved on the face of a cliff. That is Skagway's memorial to Soapy Smith...
...Last autumn the American Institute of Food Distribution estimated that the 1934 tomato pack would be up some 20%, the corn pack 20%, the pea pack 15%, the string bean pack 9%. The Alaska salmon pack was the biggest on record. All during summer and autumn Drought dropped into the can-makers' laps orders for hundreds of millions of cans for the meat which the Government was tinning for the unemployed. Last week Continental Can Co. announced that 1934 had been the best year in history, with profits of $10,707,000 against...
...Carter Adams '36, captain of the team who is entering his last meet before departing for Alaska, will load a five-man team in the Massachusetts Championship which consists of a downhill race off Graylock Mountain. The race will be run on the Thunderbolt which is a new one and one-fifth mile trail falling 1800 feet. The Harvard team will meet strong competition in the Schussverein and Hauhgeberge teams composed of Harvard graduates. The men who will compete in this meet are Robert T. Shaw '37, Charles S. Rogers '37, Dunbar Carpenter '37, H. Adams Carter '36 (Captain...
...Little America, Admiral Byrd blasted a greeting on the Jacob Ruppert's whistle. Five hundred celebrants at Ketchikan, Alaska waded through snowdrifts for a dance. Fun-loving Puerto Ricans decided to regard the occasion as a saint's festival, knocked off for a whole week. Convicts at the Illinois State penitentiary in Joliet had their work day reduced from eight hours...
Carl Lomen, who had a quarter million reindeer in Alaska, solved their problem by contracting to deliver 3,000 head to the Kittigazuit Peninsula, just east of the Mackenzie Delta. Andy Bahr solved Carl Lomen's problem by agreeing to lead the drive. On Dec. 16, 1929 after months of preparation and a reconnoitering trip by airplane, he set out from Naboktoolik, small Eskimo village in western Alaska, with three Laplanders, six Eskimos, a medical attendant, a geographer, 39 sleds piled with supplies and 3,000 reindeer. His goal lay 1,200 miles away over desolate mountains and across...