Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from New York City by Northwest Airlines. When Northwest begins its Oriental service (July 15) over the Aleutians-Great Circle route, Tokyo, Shanghai and Manila will be almost as near. A new line is projected. Chinese National Aviation Corp., a Pan American affiliate, hopes to fly its planes into Alaska...
...biggest boom is in military construction. Across Bering Strait, Russia, from which the U.S. bought Alaska for $7,200,000 in 1867, is only 52 miles away. Arctic and Pacific defense looms large in U.S. military thinking, and Alaska looms large in both. As Alaska-based B-29s, with lipstick-red wings and tails (easily seen in case of forced landings on the polar icecap), fly routine missions over the North Pole, the Army & Navy are pumping men and millions of dollars into the Territory. At Mile 26 on the Richardson Highway near Fairbanks, the Army is rushing construction...
...Government's rickety but strategically important Alaska Railroad, the one all-weather link (470 miles) between Seward on the coast and Fairbanks in the interior, is being completely reconstructed. By 1952 its roadbed will be rebuilt, its rails and ancient rolling stock will be replaced, its narrow cuts (in which 106 moose had fatal head-on collisions with locomotives last winter) will be widened, its capacity for freight and passengers increased eight to ten times...
...Alaska's Best Friend. These huge construction jobs mean huge payrolls; into Fairbanks alone last week Pan American was flying 2,500 laborers, cat skinners, carpenters. Alaskans drink an ironic toast: "Here's to Joe Stalin-Alaska's best friend," and speculate endlessly on rumors of similar activity in Siberia. For Uncle Joe is filling up the icebox...
Fairbanks is wide open. Gambling flourishes in back rooms. Nobody in Fairbanks was surprised at the arrival of an air express package marked simply: "One magnet, dice, and electrical attachments." Alaska still views the old-fashioned brothel with sympathetic tolerance. Fairbanks authorities have sternly resisted attempts to close down blonde Big Babe, and the rest of the girls who keep open house along the "line." Alaskan liquor stores sell a clear, malevolent fluid called Spirits of Peoria, a 190-proof potion calculated to make the mildest man click his heels and bay like a malemute...