Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...population is destined to roll its resistless waves to the icy barriers of the north," said William Henry Seward 101 years ago. Twenty-one years later, he bought one of the Arctic marches-Alaska -for less than 2? an acre. He would have bought Canada and Greenland if he could. He tried to get Denmark's Virgin Islands, but was a half-century ahead of his countrymen. When the islands were bought during World War I, one of Seward's successors, bumbling Robert Lansing, tossed in a quitclaim to northern Greenland...
Andrews sees a silver lining in the sudden interest which the U.S. military are showing toward Alaska, whose eternally frozen soil is an ancient, well-stocked deepfreeze. "Mammoths preserved in cold storage for 100,000 years are not infrequently uncovered. Scientists should be behind [the bulldozers] to examine the frozen earth for fossils which will tell the story of our own lost history. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that the body of one of the earliest human migrants to Alaska may be discovered...
...just finished a term as an Alaskan federal judge, and was cleaning out his chambers, when somebody came along with a consolation prize. How would he like to start a college in Alaska and become its president? Pennsylvania-born, Bucknell-educated Charles Ernest Bunnell thought he might, on one condition: whenever he decided that the college could get along without him, he would quit and return...
That was 25 years ago. Last week, at 69, Bunnell, onetime farmer, hotel proprietor, bank manager, lawyer and politician, was still on the job as president of the University of Alaska, and showing no signs of quitting...
...good many sourdough scholars, older than the average undergrads in the States; they had gone to the university for its courses in agriculture, mining and engineering. But this year there were also 215 ex-G.I.s and former WACs who had traveled thousands of miles, some because they liked Alaska, others because they couldn't squeeze into the overcrowded colleges back home...