Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speller and workbook swept the nation. Over the years, every schoolchild in Texas and Alabama, and half of those in ten other states were learning their spelling and vocabulary simultaneously. The Webster books found their way into such big cities as New York, to the Philippines and Alaska, and via missionaries to China, India, and the Belgian Congo...
...Racey Jordan was stationed at Great Falls, Mont, as a Lend-Lease expediter and liaison officer with the Russian staff headed by a Colonel Anatoly Koti-kov. Through Great Falls moved thousands of U.S. war planes to be ferried on to Russia by way of Alaska. Jordan became suspicious of the black suitcases arriving by special plane and accompanied by armed Russian guards. One day he decided to take action, entered a plane, brushed aside two Russian couriers who "were screaming about diplomatic immunity," and broke open the cases...
...Manhattan, the Rev. Bernard R. ("The Glacier Priest") Hubbard disclosed that the U.S. Air Force recently took a "fix" of the North Pole with loran (longrange navigation) beams aimed from Alaska to intersect at the 90th meridian. Father Hubbard, who is serving as an Arctic consultant to Colonel Bernt Balchen's 10th Rescue Squadron, said that U.S. Air Force planes had circled the North Pole 300 times, taking photographs of the spot marked by the crossing electronic beams...
...Russia got control of Manchurian ports and rail lines, and President Roosevelt agreed that he would see to it that China swallowed her cup of tea. Nor will most readers fail to wonder how F.D.R. could blandly turn over the Kuril Islands, which control the short air route from Alaska to the Far East. The explanation Stettinius gives: U.S. military chiefs urged Roosevelt to get Stalin into the war against Japan at any cost. In his zeal to give F.D.R. a clean bill of health, Big Ed forgets that on Oct. 30, 1943, Stalin had promised Cordell Hull, with...
Other HMC parties were deployed this summer to the Grand Tetons of Wyoming, the Coast Range in Alaska, and the French Alps--a fact which might surprise some of the founders, who originally started the club as a bull-session society. This was in 1924, when Henry S. Hall, Jr. '19 returned from climbing near Banff and wanted to tell all his friends about it. So he invited them to his house and started talking, and called it the Harvard Mountaineering Club...