Word: alaskan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...humans?an Alaskan "sourdough"* called Waskey and Earl Rossman, a U. S. newspaper reporter?would be occupied with a slim skein of wires, a box and two silvery bulbs that occasionally glowed a chilly yellow against the trampled snow. In his head phones, Waskey could distinguish a thin piping note above the crackling static?a note that said another wireless operator back in Fairbanks had heard the preliminary signals of Waskey's small portable radio, was ready to receive and relay to the outer world news of the advance party of the aerial polar expedition financed by the Detroit Chamber...
...monoplanes of the expedition were christened this afternoon while 2,000 persons watched and cheered. The larger ship was christened the Detroiter, while its smaller sister received the name Alaskan...
...breakdown of two "iron malamutes" (tractors). Husky-dogs have been substituted to freight supplies to Point Barrow, where Captain George Wilkins will arrive in April with his pilots and two Fokker planes. One pilot, Lieutenant Carl B. Eielson has flown over 60,000 miles all alone in the Alaskan airmail service between Fairbanks and McGrath. These men intend heading north and northwest from Point Barrow, exploring the "blind-spot," passing over the Pole and on down the other side of the world to Spitzbergen...
Marcel the valet took cruel punishment in an Alaskan camp until he innocently shot four huge bears and taught the foreman la savate (pedal boxing...
...Alaskan" peninsula begins between the 59th and 60th degrees of North Latitude and extends in a southwesterly direction to Unimak Pass, where the Aleutian Islands begin. Anchorage is at the head of Cook Inlet and is more than 120 miles northeast of where the Alaska peninsula begins; while Nome is situate on the south coast of Seward peninsula, many hundred miles from the Alaska peninsula. Anchorage is north of the 61st parallel of North Latitude and Nome is north of the 64th parallel. If you referred to the great body of land between Cook Inlet and Norton Sound...