Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unanimously confirmed the President's appointment of New Dealing, 62-year-old Ernest Gruening to a third four-year term as Governor of Alaska. The Senate's action came after two months' delay and was a triumph for a planeload of Alaskans who flew to Washington to defend him against attacks inspired by the territory's sourdough millionaire, Republican "Cap" Austin Lathrop of Fairbanks...
...shifting to the Atlantic. The great Pacific battleground, which had once been dotted with Army & Navy bases, crisscrossed with the wakes and aircraft courses of the mightiest fighting fleet in history, had become a lightly patrolled frontier. Behind a defense line running through the Marianas to Okinawa, Japan and Alaska, the U.S. had retreated to its own West Coast...
Last week the Indiana Farm Bureau began polling its members about their 1949 vacation plans. Usually the Farm Bureau sponsors tours around the U.S. This time, for the first time, the bureau had a question to ask prospering Hoosier farmers: How would they like sponsored tours to Hawaii, Alaska, Europe, South America...
...Alaska, where there are two men for every woman, Representative William Egan proposed a $50-a-year tax on unmarried females, to "further the institution of matrimony, relieve the housing shortage...
Raup, a staff member of Harvard's Gray Herbarium since 1929, became Forest Director in 1946. He has led several botanical expeditions to Alaska, and is known for his work on the botany of Canada...