Word: alaskan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...state that Nome is on the west coast of the Alaskan peninsula"; and that Anchorage is on the "south shore of the peninsula, meaning, presumably, the "Alaskan" peninsula also...
...fuel and supplies all over the globe and generally carrying out a gigantic task in organization. Of course, Uncle Sam had to dig much deeper into his pocket in reality. Indirect expenses, such as the cost of fuel burned by destroyers in the Pacific, by Coast Guard cutters in Alaskan waters, by scout cruisers and destroyers in the North Atlantic, were borne by the Navy, not the Air Service-but the taxpayer paid for them nevertheless...
...when Senator Capper brought them together. Upon his appointment, Mr. Wallace succeeded his friend of long standing, Edwin Thomas Meredith of Des Moines. In office, Mr. Wallace conducted the Department's affairs with quiet industry and without notable occurrences other than his staunch opposition to the proposed transfer of Alaskan forest reserves to the control of Secretary Fall's Department of the Interior. This fight was long and bitter. In his speech of July, 1923, President Harding let it be known that he sided with Mr. Wallace and against Secretary Fall. The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department...
...proposed artificial restocking, restriction of fishing and prevention of the pollution of waters by dumping of chemicals, factory wastes, etc. Some measures have already been taken by Congress. There is a new law against dumping of oil by oil-burning vessels; drastic restrictions have been placed on the Alaskan salmon fisheries; the upper Mississippi River has been set aside as a breeding ground; a halibut treaty has been signed with Canada...
...many years Elihu Root has been generally spoken of as the foremost international lawyer in the U. S. Mr. Root, as a member of the Alaskan boundary Tribunal (1903), as U. S. Secretary of State in President Roosevelt's cabinet (1905-1909), as counsel for the U. S. in the North Atlantic Fisheries Arbitration (1910), as a member of the Hague Tribunal since 1910, as one of the Commission of International Jurists which, on invitation of the League, reported the plan for the World Court (established 1921), as Commissioner Plenipotentiary for the U. S. at the Washington Arms Limitation...