Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alaska, New Dealers hailed a straw in the wind. Chunky, young E. L. ("Bob") Bartlett ran as an all-out New Dealer for Tony Dimond's voteless seat as delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives. He won the Democratic nomination (tantamount to election) by a landslide against one mid-road and one anti-New Deal opponent...
...Stanislaus Orlemanski of Springfield, Mass. (TIME, May 8, 15) got home from Moscow last week. He arrived in the U.S. by plane via Alaska, where, finding himself short of funds, he borrowed $200 from a U.S. Army chaplain at Fairbanks. To photographers at Seattle he shouted: "You should be at the front fighting instead of staying at home taking pictures." At reporters he wagged a stubby finger: "I am a tired man. It is good to get home but I have no other statement to make." When they persisted, he threatened to "give somebody a trimming...
...roar could be heard for several miles, as huge cakes of ice broke apart, flapped up, stood on edge, ground into each other, crashed and thundered. Most of the 300 citizens (mostly Indians) of Nenana, Alaska, made for the river, to watch a fragile candy-striped tripod anchored in the ice. There was $125,000 riding on that little pole, in bets from soldiers and sourdoughs all over Alaska...
...happened. The candy-striped tripod spun over, crushed like a matchstick. It was payoff time in Alaska's famed Nenana Ice Pool, the world's biggest gamble...
From the refinery aviation fuel, gas for the trucks and bulldozers on the Alaskan road will be redistributed to Fairbanks in Alaska, Watson Lake in the Yukon and Skagway on the Alaskan panhandle over another 915-mile pipeline network...