Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dramatized the request by tramping in to see the Secretary, announcing she had left her tractor mired to the carburetor two miles outside of town. Gold operators complained that the Army hired their help away. Hundreds asked for release of Government lands, an end to restrictions which discourage homesteading. Alaska was in terrible need of hospitals, particularly tuberculosis hospitals. And there was always the subject of high freight rates...
...other hand, most Secretaries of the Interior get a feverish feeling that they know too much about Alaska (Harold Ickes was there on his honeymoon, never went back). Alaska's 586,400 square miles are occupied by only 72,524 people, 32,458 of them tuberculosis-ridden natives. It is rich, but its riches do it little good; its basic industries, salmon fishing and canning and gold mining, are owned in absentia. It has more coal than Pennsylvania, endless miles of virgin timber, many waterpower sites, but they cannot be marketed...
...close-up look at the land none of his predecessors had understood. At his first stop, Fairbanks, the modern hub of the old, interior gold fields, he became aware of the Territory's attitude toward bureaucratic Government. He was greeted by a sign which read: "Welcome Lord of Alaska." But Alaskans soon began to change their tune...
Like many another U.S. citizen, Harry Truman had been planning vacations since the snow melted last spring. He had hoped to go to the Philippines, had planned a trip to Alaska. But he had stayed in the capital instead, watching crisis after crisis surge and ebb away...
Interior Secretary Julius A. ("Cap") Krug, on a flying tour of Alaska, was banqueted with a difference when he dropped in on little Barrow, the continent's farthest-north town. Eskimos dined him in the schoolhouse. Spécialites de maison: barbecued caribou, seal cheek, roast walrus heart, fried seal liver, candied whale meat...