Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thawed Prospects. The Admiral Corporation made an old joke come true. Its dealer in Fairbanks, Alaska, has sold six refrigerators to Eskimos. An awed New York executive confessed: "It was one of the markets we overlooked...
...hardy inhabitants* of isolated Aklavik at the mouth of the Mackenzie River own 220 radios. But for a long time they could tune in regularly on only one station, at Fairbanks, Alaska, and it broadcasts only in the winter. Now, thanks to a burly, good-natured Canadian soldier named R. A. ("Red") MacLeod, Aklavikans have a full-fledged station of their...
...history of Alaska," he said, "is a history of neglect as far as federal relations are concerned." Only by becoming a state, he argued, could Alaskans gain better transportation, better utilization of timber lands, funds for agricultural experiment, more schools and other practical foundations for a mature economy...
...point he was asked to comment on a previous witness' statement: "What Alaska needs is white women and roads." Governor Gruening laughed, said he thought that women would come north if roads and other facilities for civilized living were available. Said a committee member, Nevada's Charles H. Russell (Republican): "In other words, you would put it 'roads and white women.' " Gruening smilingly assented...
There were other arguments over Alaskan statehood to be considered. Some cannery and mining interests in Alaska were quietly opposing it; many a member of Gruening's opposition cried that the territory would be unable to support itself...