Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report spared no one. Its first bad example was an old favorite: the $135,000,000 Canol oil pipeline project in Canada and Alaska. The report charged that Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell Army Supply Chief, had ordered the pipeline built on the basis of a "wholly inadequate study" and had continued its construction in "disregard of repeated warnings by experts." Then it laid into Fleet Admiral Ernest King. He had "used the high office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the claim of military secrecy for the purpose of preventing the Congress and the people from discontinuing...
...fishing up around the Alaska Highway was just about the finest in the country. So Major General Frederick Franklin ("Fighting Frank") Worthington assured newsmen. Why didn't they bring their tackle and their sleeping bags and come along? He was going up that way with about 100 officers and men. What for? Why, just to look the country over. There was nothing official about the trip, he said. It was "just one of old Worthington's ideas...
...Tokyo this week, U.S. Congressman Dewey Short, member of a six-man House Military Committee touring Pacific occupation zones, declared there was "imminent danger of another Pearl Harbor in Korea . . . or Alaska. . . . We cannot risk being caught unprepared again...
Krug did not always agree. He bluntly asked citizens of Ketchikan to "face reality," said he could get little money from Congress until Alaska got some of its own by local taxation. He was less than enthusiastic about the gold industry, which dredges up gold to be sold to the Government at an artificial $35 an ounce and is then carefully reburied in Treasury vaults...
...before he left the territory, Cap Krug announced the release of 18 million acres of Government land, much of it freed by narrowing the five-mile right-of-way along the Alaska Highway to 300 feet. He also surprised many an old settler by advocating statehood (Alaskans will vote on the question on Oct. 8) and the construction of a railroad through Canada to the "outside...