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Word: alaskan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skins to be sold at auction by the Government. Last week the U. S. auctioned off some 15,000 skins, collected $282,640. Of this, 15% will be paid to Canada, 15% to Japan. The rest represents a tidy profit to the U. S. on a shrewd investment in Alaskan real estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOARDS & BUREAUS: Sealskin Sale | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

...hydroelectric power at Muscle Shoals, turn its river-&-harbor digging over to private hands. Other governmental activities which, as "private business," the F. of A. B. would have to abolish: printing by one of the biggest plants in the U. S.; ship-building at Navy yards; operation of the Alaskan Railroad by the Department of the Interior; the U. S. Shipping Board's fleet;* helium production for the Navy by the Bureau of Mines; Post Office banking in the form of postal savings accounts; lumbering in national forests by the Department of Agriculture; real estate sales by the General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Government Out of Business? | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

Senator Frederick Hale of Maine and Assistant U. S. Attorney General Seth Whitley Richardson returned from an Alaskan hunting trip. Each had killed two brown bears. Senator Hale brought back three cubs for the Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 8, 1931 | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

...mother says she could correct our newspaper work and censor it. Each week. But she does not. The reason: the Alaskan people and Sourdoughs all like it better just exactly the way we get it out. They say they don't want it changed from the way we make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 25, 1931 | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

Columbia v. Yale v. Pennsylvania. Coach Ed Leader of Yale had plenty of good men to pull the Alaskan cedar oars, supposed to be tougher and springier than spruce, with which he had rigged out his shells this year. It is a heavy crew, too, averaging more than 185 Ib.; Leader's main problem was to find a stroke. Those able strokes, Arthur Palmer Jr. and Woodruff Tappen, had graduated and there was no one else in sight. He decided after elaborate trials that long-legged Robert Goodale was more dependable than Herbert Shepard, who stroked last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Crews | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

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