Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Designed to furnish oil to U.S. troops in Alaska, it had never achieved much stature except in Lieut. General Brehon Somervell's Army Service Forces. The Truman Committee had called the $134,000,000 collection of oil wells, refinery and pipeline "inexcusable": long before it was completed, Petroleum Boss Harold Ickes had said it should be junked...
Died. Charles D. ("King of the Arctic") Brower, 83, rich Alaskan whaling and trading bigwig, famed host whom the late Will Rogers and Wiley Post were flying to visit when their plane crashed in 1935; of a heart attack; in Point Barrow, Alaska...
...herself on being a daughter of one of "the Mercer girls" imported from New England by one Asa Mercer to mate with the lonely pioneers, and Vaughan's mistress Pansy Deleath, a pleasant, casual woman whom he met while she was singing in the Gold Strike Saloon in Alaska...
...uniform (almost 50 percent have earned commissions). And the services seem to have made good use of the special skills of these men. To mention just a few, a photographer is "still my own photo boss with my own lab" ... an editorial man is Yank's senior Alaska correspondent . . . and one of our News Bureau men is gathering vital combat intelligence for the Army's G-2 Division...
...Northwest was back in the black, and last year its net profits of $517,000 were the highest ever. After the war, Hunter expects to stretch Northwest's routes all the way to the Orient by way of Alaska, to which he is already flying for the Army. To make this trans-pacific route financially feasible, Hunter had to have the Milwaukee-New York link. But he made it plain last week that he wants no help for this big job. He brushed off the suggestion of CABoss Lloyd Welch Pogue that Northwest merge with Pennsylvania-Central Airlines, presumably...