Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...founding of Plymouth and Pedro de Valdivia's record of the establishment of Santiago, Chile, by the Spaniards. Says MacLeish: "I think one reason the Americas find it so difficult to get along, one with the other, is that we don't understand our common background. From Alaska to the tip of South America, every stage of life was the same...
Cups That Cheer. In Fairbanks, Alaska, Attu veterans, knocked out of the first round of a basketball tournament, left for their posts with a long winter's supply of panties and brassieres. Explained their captain: "We'll hang them up outside our huts back home and charge the boys at least a dollar a touch...
...purchase sufficient Canadian raw materials, place enough U.S. contracts in Canada, to balance Canada's purchases in the U.S. This scheme has worked so favorably that Canada is now able to repay the U.S. in her own dollars for U.S.-built extensions to the Northwest airway to Alaska (TIME, March...
...cracked again, made Dutch Harbor, was repaired by Seabees this time and cleared for Seattle. In the Gulf of Alaska she ran into a gusty blow, hove to for eight hours, cracked again, rigged chains to relieve the stress. When she finally made Puget Sound, she was leaking but still under her own steam...
...least six other Liberties are known to have cracked open in Alaska waters during the midwinter months. From shipping centers around the world have come alarming reports of sudden, mysterious failures in the hulls of the No. 1 U.S. merchant ship. In February, after preliminary inquiries, the Truman Committee began formal hearings to investigate the soundness of Liberties...