Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Missourians heard strange news from their sons and brothers in Alaska. There the Army camps are overrun with dogs -mongrels and curs of all descriptions -called "Bombproof" and "Propwash," dogs raised by the soldiers and pampered beyond the dreams of any U.S. pet. In Alaska, too, there was an echo of Prohibition. Bored G.I.s invented a new drink, dubbed it "Aleutian Solution." Contents: one part "torpedo juice" or medical alcohol, two parts grapefruit juice. CJ A Californian in the farthest South...
...Arnold led a bomber flight to Alaska. Jimmy Doolittle was the first man to fly across the U.S. in less than 24 hours. Major General William Kepner (the Eighth Air Force fighter commander) flew around in a stratosphere balloon. Spaatz himself commanded the famous endurance flight of the Fokker monoplane Question Mark. In his crew were Lieut. General Ira Eaker, now Allied air commander in the Mediterranean, and Brigadier General Elwood ("Pete") Quesada, Ninth Air Force fighter commander in Britain...
Reburied. Will Rogers, cowboy humorist-philosopher who was killed in 1935 in an Alaska plane crash; in a white stone crypt on a hillside near his home town, Claremore, Okla...
...over Street & Smith's magazines; now & then a single issue had three or four Faust stories under different pseudonyms. In his most productive years Faust averaged two million words a year-at the pulp magazines' top rate of 4? a word. He once wrote Hollywood an Alaska story, but the studio needed a sarong scenario. Faust was back in five days, his story reset in the South Seas...
...gamblers, practical jokers. Their prime weapon was the Adcock Direction Finder (built and perfected by Sterling and his men), which has a long antenna on a 40-ft. tower and gives the approximate point of origin of any radio signal. RID now has 30-odd Adcocks in the U.S., Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico...