Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days of dazzling brightness were coming at last. From the Susitna River valley, 100 miles north of Anchorage, the settlers could see breathtaking Mount McKinley and the whole Alaska range. Moose tracks appeared in the slushy tops of the frozen lakes, and there were beaver tracks and the tracks of the beaver trappers. Running water broke through the melting surface of the wide, twisting Susitna, and vehicular traffic was warned to keep off. The yawns of spring were cracking the frozen vastnesses of Alaska...
...representation in Congress. The earliest census fixed the ratio at one representative for each 33,000 people, gave the House 105 members. The ratio kept changing through the years, un til 1929 when Congress froze maximum House membership at 435 (raised tempo rarily to 437 with the admission of Alaska and Hawaii) and fixed representation merely by dividing the population by that number: in 1950, it was one member for 345,000 people...
...industry's biggest (reported by Reynolds at 1,200 men, but estimated by the industry at up to 2,000) and most respected. Gray's taste in salesmen runs to those with a calculatingly homey counterside manner, men known at every crossroads store from New Mexico to Alaska for their friendliness, their willingness to set up displays and help the retailer in any task, their speed in filling cigarette orders. Result: the retailer often gives them a helping hand in turn, awards them choice display space. As one who knows the value of a quick flash report from the field...
...Alaska's Democratic legislature was somewhat preoccupied with a superficial study of the three Bs principally because it is a fledgling state facing real frontier problems. The "bingo" dealt with a lottery bill (passed) designed to legalize the beloved Alaska tradition of betting on the exact day, hour and minute of the ice breakup on the Tanana and certain other rivers. The booze bill (soon to become law) requires saloons to close down each day between 5 a.m. and 8 a.m.. instead of 3 a.m. to 5 a.m. weekdays. The boudoir bit was altogether something different. Passed last...
...Democratic Representative John Simon Hellenthal, 45, of Anchorage, the bill would have allowed prisoners' wives to visit their husbands at the prison in privacy. This periodical togetherness, declared Hellenthal, would help rehabilitate prisoners, preserve families, cut down on the incidence of homosexuality in prisons.-For fear of making Alaska "the laughing stock of every two-bit master of ceremonies," as .one senator put it, and to save the cost of constructing private facilities at the prisons, the state senate rewrote Hellenthal's bill to permit the prisoners to go home...