Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...congressional junkets were headed for overseas. One committee was headed for Hollywood to investigate labor racketeering. House and Senate committees were planning to tour the U.S., checking up on housing, agriculture, high prices. But at least half-a-dozen separate committees and subcommittees were heading for Europe, three for Alaska, three for the Pacific, one to Latin America. Before they all return to Washington next January, 100 or more Senators and Congressmen in dozens of committees and subcommittees will spend upwards of $2 million crisscrossing the U.S. and circling the globe...
After the war, Russian fishermen prepared to take over where the Japs left off. They were snagged by a presidential proclamation forbidding foreigners to fish in the territorial waters of the Bering Sea off Alaska, best king-crabbing grounds...
Francis P. Magoun '50, Shiverick's roommate, was also a member of the group, and his mother, wife of Francis P. Magoun '16, professor of Comparative Literature, told reporters yesterday that Putnam, who scaled Mt. St. Elias in Alaska last summer, was leading the expedition along with Beckey...
...Hard Way. Wehran, a Marine pilot in World War I, then a barnstormer and a booking agent for Alaska bush flyers, got acquainted with Teterboro the hard way. He crashed there in 1924. In 1941, when he cast a speculative eye at it, the gone-to-weed field did not look much better to him. But Wehran thought it had possibilities. He scraped up the $100,000 down payment and bought the field for $500,000. Then he persuaded Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) to finance the remainder on a ten-year mortgage and lend him $500,000 more...
...Although Alaska's friends in Hawaii hope there will soon be 50 stars in Old Glory, they feel that Hawaii has a reservation...