Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They sat back, ready to chew up Alaska Airlines when it weakened further. But Tenderfoot Law planned to fool them. This week, he flew north with a hatful of plans which he firmly believes will 1) make Alaska Airlines undisputed top dog, 2) put it in a key spot athwart postwar Great Circle routes to the Orient...
...such seat-of-the-pants flying, Alaska managed to provide 28% of the territory's population with passenger, property and mail service last year, topping even Pan American Airways' lusty subsidiary, Pacific Alaska. But Alaska Airlines lost some $60,000 in the process. This was pleasing to the territories' 20 other fiercely competitive airlines, whose pilots think nothing of wooing passengers out of rivals' offices...
...scrappy young (34) Texas wildcatter who has long wanted to stake out an empire of his own in aviation. Last week he had a good start. As the new president of Alaska Airlines, Inc. he was boss of 6,600 miles of subarctic air routes that stretched all the way from Juneau to Little Diomede Island, within gliding distance of Siberia. Only American Airlines, Inc. could boast of more continental air-route mileage...
...Alaska Airlines (formerly Star Airlines) is still only loosely held together. It was started by an elderly Manhattan industrialist, Raymond W. Marshall, who, seeing the great possibilities in Alaskan aviation, merged four bush-flying lines. As a result, its 30 planes are mostly flying antiques. Passengers often sit astride piles of rawhide and potatoes as the planes snake their way through mountain passes with supplies for isolated villages, mining camps and canneries...
...territory opened by the road was previously inaccessible and had never before been explored from a botanical standpoint. Construction from Dawson Creek, Alberta, to Fairbanks, Alaska, was completed in 1942 by Army Engineers...