Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three members of the College Mountain Club will spend ten weeks this summer in Alaska among the peaks of the St. Elias range to test out special cold-weather equipment, Club officials announced last night...
After trekking 75 miles west to the Alaska Highway at Trutch, B.C., Farrel got the news through. Last week R.C.A.F. men flew north from Fort St. John to get Pich's body. Farrel had told them where to look for it: in a snowy tree's branches, safe from the wolves...
...example, Northwest Airlines, Inc., which lost $1,141,340, had put a lot into developing its short route via Alaska to Japan, expected a big boost in traffic soon. Colonial Airlines, Inc. attributed much of its deficit ($1,074,341) to "developmental expenses" on its new Bermuda run. American Airlines spent $30,926,000 for new flight equipment, will have replaced all of its fleet of older planes with more efficient craft by year...
...Fairbanks, Alaska, whiskey prices went back to normal after a month-long price war during which a fifth sold for as little...
Those bases would have to be within at least 2,000 miles of the objective, declared Army Secretary Kenneth Royall. "Even from any of the Atlantic island nations or from Japan or Alaska, frequent and intensive strategic bombing could touch only fragmentary parts of central Eurasia," he maintained...