Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crop of traffic jams, the broken windows, the roistering funsters with water pistols and electric ticklers, most New Yorkers felt much the same way. But this week Manhattan dug in for another invasion of a round million Legionnaires and their friends, arriving from everywhere between Buenos Aires and Alaska for their 29th annual convention...
...Save Eyesfrain." A month ago, Mrs. Woodward founded the Little Below the Knee Club and sent out a call to battle. The response was tremendous. By last week, the club had members in all the 48 states, in Canada and Alaska. In Dallas alone, 1,300 women signed up. San Antonio L.B.K.s issued a war cry: "The Alamo fell, but our hemlines will...
...five of the nation's 67 surviving G.A.R. veterans turned up at their 81st annual encampment, elected one of their younger members, 102-year-old Robert W. Rownd of Ripley, N.Y., as commander in chief, prepared to look around for next year's camp site. EURJ In Alaska, after a look at Fairbanks' ili-famed row of brothels known as "the line," Dr. W. T. Harrison, a district director of the U.S. Public Health Service, said: "I did not think there was any place under the American flag where prostitution is as flagrant...
Last week, twelve years after Wiley Post had crashed to his death with Will Rogers in Alaska, Bill Odom, now a lean, balding 27, made good. Alone in Penmaker Milton Reynold's Bombshell, he circled the globe between Thursday and Sunday...
Died. Gerald ("Gerry") McGeer, 59, bellicose Senator from British Columbia and Mayor of Vancouver, of a heart ailment; in Vancouver. For two years McGeer had been trumpeting warnings of War III, exhorting the U.S. and Canada to arm from the tip of Alaska to California because "the Northwest will become the Belgium of the future...