Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles from Lake of the Woods to the Pacific, and 2,000 miles from the 49th Parallel to the polar seas. Prairie flying schools trained 131,553 flyers for World War II. Through North West's staging fields pass B-29s, shuttling between the U.S. and Alaska (half of the Edmonton field is set aside for Americans...
Another small army of females was converging on the U.S. from Europe. Among them were Greek "picture brides." Like one Greek girl who was bound for Anchorage, Alaska, many spoke no English, had never met the men they were to marry (they had only swapped photographs by mail), and seemed to have no idea of where they were going...
...carrier Saipan north from Norfolk with three Piasecki ("Sagging Sausage") helicopters, each capable of carrying eight passengers. The red-faced Air Force ordered up ski-equipped planes and called in famed Arctic flyer Colonel Bernt Balchen, who had commanded the Air Force's first successful glider rescue in Alaska fortnight...
...enthusiasm evoked by our request or for the discussions of home problems and the philosophizing about cooking that accompanied many of the recipes. One reader, in submitting a casserole called Baked Macedoine wrote that its U.S. ingredients were hardly as exciting as those she had been used to in Alaska where "I cooked many wonderful meals of moose, caribou, wild sheep and goat, halibut and salmon fresh from the ocean, grayling and trout from the clear, cold rivers. Bear has even been on my menu...
Harry Bridges' long nose was caught in a wringer last week. He had shut down the West Coast waterfront for more than 45 days. He had choked off business in faraway Hawaii, smothered the West Coast's trade with Alaska, had tied up 222 of the coast's 375 ships, costing shippers and shipowners millions of dollars a day. The strike was another dramatic show of power by U.S. labor's second most recalcitrant leader (after John Lewis). But last week Harry Bridges was hollering for help...