Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enfeebled hypocrite, whining at his wife instead of beating her, given to opening letters addressed to other persons. The daughter is married to an envious and impoverished lout. The only good son (James Dunn) has ill fortune. He is wrongfully imprisoned. On his release, he goes to Alaska on a mining trip which lasts so long that his return seems unlikely...
Marked in red on a map of Alaska in the Alaskan Airways office at Fairbanks is a 200-mi. square in the extreme northeast section of the Territory along the Canadian border and the coast of the Arctic Ocean. Somewhere in that wilderness plods a herd of 2,400 reindeer, all that remain of a herd of 3,500. With seven Lapp herders they are on their way from the Seward Peninsula to east of the Mackenzie River in northern Canada. They set out two years ago when Lomen Reindeer Corp. contracted to deliver the herd to the Canadian Government...
Flights of such special nature are frequently undertaken by aviation companies in Alaska but Alaskan Airways (pioneered by the late Carl Ben Eielson) is now also operating monthly passenger & express service between Anchorage and Bristol Bay (southern coast), weekly beI tween Anchorage and Bethel (southwest), weekly between Fairbanks and Nome, monthly between Fairbanks and Wiseman (above the Arctic Circle), weekly between Fairbanks, Fort Yukon & Dawson (Yukon). Compared to domestic U. S. airways, Alaskan fares are high ($200 between Fairbanks & Nome). But they are much cheaper than the only other means of winter travel-dogteam. The Fair-banks-Nome flight takes...
...General Gibbs's record in the Army was long and active. He entered the service in 1898 as a private in the sist Iowa Infantry. In 1900, after participating in 28 Spanish War skirmishes & engagements, he was made a first lieutenant, signal officer. He served several years in Alaska and Cuba in the construction of military telegraph lines. For his work in the Signal Corps during the War he was decorated by five governments. In 1923 he supervised replacing the Washington-Alaska submarine cable, a difficult operation. Before his election to Postal's presidency last week, he made...
...keen interest in aviation, was planning to buy a plane. Day before his death he was at his desk as usual, worked late, dined and went to the theatre in all good cheer with a school & college friend. His act dumbfounded his associates. An airplane set out from Anchorage, Alaska, to notify Wilton Lloyd-Smith, lawyer brother, off hunting with his wife and small daughters in the Rainy Pass district...