Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last year the Alaska Highway brought briskness to Editor Moore's idyllic retreat. Thousands of inflooding U.S. Army engineers and private construction workers transformed Whitehorse into something unreal. Circulation of the Star did not zoom: there are still only some 600 Stargazers. But the job printing orders went up like a rocket. Officers and contractors now bang on the Star's door with orders for letterheads, record forms, tickets, contracts, etc., in thousands...
...from his home at Port Washington, N.Y., to assume his place as National Committeeman from Arizona (where he has a summer home). When Bud Kelland's committee got through with Fred Baker's proposal, all that was left was a one-sentence resolution recommending the admission of Alaska as the 49th State...
...Truman Committee turned up what will probably prove to be only the first of many tales of frantic, wasteful Army spending after Pearl Harbor. Lesson One involved $134,000,000 - the cost of the Army's long-secret Canol project for fueling Alaska Highway and air traffic by developing an oilfield in Canada's frozen Northwest near Fort Norman...
When the question of Alaska Highway fuel came up, the Dean, admittedly no oil expert, talked around a little bit, and held one conference - at which no notes were taken. He did not bother to consult the Petroleum Administrator about the alternatives, or WPB about the availability of critical materials, transportation and manpower, or the Navy about the possibility of sending oil up from Seattle by tanker through the Inside Passage. "I am not familiar with Washington situations and setups," explained the Dean. Then Dean Graham sat down and wrote a one-page memorandum recommending Canol. General Somervell okayed...
...Geological Survey in Washington. Its chief strategists are a Mutt & Jeff pair: lean, untidy Survey Director William Embry Wrather, who looks like a country schoolteacher, and chubby, loud-tied Chief Geologist Gerald Francis Loughlin. Since 1938 the Survey has sent forth hundreds of prospecting parties to promising fields from Alaska to Latin America. They have hunted for copper in Vermont, bauxite in Alabama, zinc in Wisconsin, oil in Alaska. In the past year alone the geologists have made more than 700 field investigations...