Word: alaskan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doctor of Prince Rupert, remote Canadian island just south of the Alaskan border, not long ago went a patient to undergo an operation. Suddenly he showed signs of diabetes. The physician, Dr. Richard Geddes Large, promptly dosed the man with insulin and asked him what he had been taking all these years in its place. The man said it was an infusion in hot water of the root of a spiny, prickly shrub called devil's-club (Echinopanax horridus). British Columbia Indians take potions of devil's-club for whatever ails them...
...good 60% of the world's salmon, including 90% of the U. S. supply, comes from Alaskan waters, where also abound halibut, crabs, and diverse marine edibles. U. S. fishermen consider that by God and treaty they hold sole rights to the Bristol Bay area of the Bering Sea, where more than $40,000,000 worth of salmon is netted each year. Within the past eight years, Japanese vessels, equipped to zip a fish from the sea and can it aboard have appeared off Alaska in increasing numbers...
Last February, Alaskan Delegate Anthony J. Dimond* informed the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee: "I am gravely apprehensive . . . that there will be armed conflict in the Bering Sea." Concerned not so much for its nationals as for U. S.-Japanese relations, Tokyo's Foreign Office promised that Japanese vessels would leave salmon alone, would net crabs only beyond the three-mile limit...
VALDEZ, Alaska--Bradford Washburn, Harvard Geographer and leader of the University's Alaskan expedition, reported today that all equipment had reached the first base camp on the Natuanuska Glacier near here. The group will survey the unmapped Chugach Mountain Range...
Coast guardsmen and Seattle harbor patrol beats attached lines to the plane and towed it ashore. The women could not be revived. The victims were Mrs. Ome Daiber and Miss Dorothy Matthews of Seattle. Mrs. Daiber's husband accompanied Washburn on previous Alaskan expeditions. Miss Matthews was engaged to Borrows...