Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...island's industrialization with the aid of ample waterpower. Porto Rico, for instance, produces 600,000 tons of raw sugar per year but lacks a big refinery. Politically Porto Rico wants full statehood (minor voices call for independence) or at least a civil territorial status like Hawaii and Alaska. Porto Ricans were outraged when the U. S. Congress at the last session classified it as a colony by appropriating $5,000 for it to exhibit at the International Colonial Exposition in France...
...Omaha, Neb. last November, Mrs. Robert Tunberg got a balloon with her name and address on it as a favor at a dinner-party. She released it. Last week she said she had received a letter from Henry A. Prentice, miner, of Fairbanks, Alaska, who said...
States east of the Mississippi gave $6,232,887.75. Pennsylvania gave $974,396.53 which was substantially more than the $919,114.49 from seven Pacific and Rocky Mountain States, plus Alaska. Alaska gave $3,115.02. New York's $2,321,835.75 was a trifle more than the total of the States between the Rockies and the River. No State other than Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois and California, gave more than $500,000. Nevada (lowest State) gave $5,414.75. Judge Payne said that the Red Cross has helped 2,000,000 persons with food, clothing or other relief...
...even are now operating at a profit, ones which were just profitable are now turning in tremendous profits. The effect of this has been that Gold Fever, always smoldering in the mind of man, has flamed fiercer than ever. One evidence of this is seen on the stock exchanges. Alaska Juneau (the big Treadwell Mine), Dome Mines (of which Broker Jules Semon Bache is president), Mclntyre-Porcupine, Homestake, Tech-Hughes, are all selling near or above their 1930 highs. Another evidence of the fever is seen wherever there is a chance of gold being found. Globe, Ariz, bubbled with excitement...
Eielson's Friends. Last week two flying mates of the late Carl Ben Eielson (who crashed to death a year ago in the service of Alaskan Airways) made news: Pilot Frank Dorbandt circled low over the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes on the Alaska Peninsula, landed on a level spot amid the active craters, took photographs and flew safely away again. Pilot Joe Crosson (who found Eielson's wrecked plane after the two-month search) flew from Fairbanks to diphtheria-stricken Point Barrow, bearing antitoxin...