Word: alaskan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eielson's Friends. Last week two flying mates of the late Carl Ben Eielson (who crashed to death a year ago in the service of Alaskan Airways) made news: Pilot Frank Dorbandt circled low over the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes on the Alaska Peninsula, landed on a level spot amid the active craters, took photographs and flew safely away again. Pilot Joe Crosson (who found Eielson's wrecked plane after the two-month search) flew from Fairbanks to diphtheria-stricken Point Barrow, bearing antitoxin...
Bradford Washburn '33 youthful explorer and mountain-climber, will speak in the Living Room of the Harvard Union at 8 o'clock tonight on "The Exploration of Mount Fairweather." The story of the unsuccessful attempt to climb this 15,330 foot Alaskan mountain will be illustrated by motion pictures. The speaker will be introduced by H. J. Coolidge '92, assistant curator in charge of mammals at the Zoological Museum...
...they are content with a can of condensed milk, a few pounds of potatoes, a loaf of whole wheat bread daily. Good meat for dogs can be had for 10¢ a pound. But dog acts often require many animals. Last fortnight Bill Blomberg, vaudeville performer, stationed his 32 unemployed Alaskan huskies with Roofer McHugh, fed them about 50 Ib. of meat three times a week. Elephants eat the most. They need at least a $2.50 bale of hay every day. Living in Roofer McHugh's stable last week were an unemployed boxing kangaroo, four elephants, five ponies, one mule...
Father Bernard Rosecrans Hubbard, S. J., head of the geology department of the Jesuit University of Santa Clara, Calif., last fortnight told newsmen and geologists he had discovered that the Aniakchak and Veniaminoff, Alaskan peaks thought to be extinct, are alive. If so, they are the largest active craters in the world...
Confirming Father Hubbard's observation that the Alaskan volcanoes show increased activity this year was the report brought to Seattle last week by officers of the power schooner, Aleutian Native. "Boiling like a pot of porridge" was their description of active Gareloi Island in the Aleutians...