Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Raleigh, N.C., 13 Episcopal bishops laid their hands on the head of 30-year-old Rev. William Jones Gordon Jr. When the hands were lifted, William Gordon was not only bishop of Alaska's missionary district but the youngest Episcopal bishop ever consecrated. Said he afterward: "I was trudging along in the snow last year, behind a dog team, when I hear this Indian yelling to me he's got a message. It was from the House of Bishops. I read it and just about fainted...
...Navy fighter and dive-bomber pilot in the war, he had been shot down in the Solomons, hospitalized for a year. As a newsman, he had been around: to Alaska, Shanghai and New York Herald Tribune posts in Washington and Paris...
...Alberta Travel Bureau was lining up private homes, even vacant hospital beds. The province expected to top last year's record of 752,000 visitors and to reap a $20 million return. It was expecting but not encouraging 50,000 to rough it over the resort-shy Alaska Highway...
...bases in northeast Siberia across the Bering Strait from Alaska, from which they could bomb any city...
...Words or Less . . ." Typical "cancer month" commercial, on Manhattan's WQXR: "Would you like to win a $9,300 house ... a $2,000 Alaska seal fur coat, a ... piano, an ... automobile? . . . Listen to the details of the New York City Cancer Committee's amazing radio jackpot contest! All you have to do is to complete in 25 words or less the statement 'I give to conquer cancer because . . .' and send it in with a contribution of at least 25?." Chief designer of the new technique in cancer fund-raising is Campaign Chairman Elmer H. Bobst...