Word: alaskan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortunately, in the U. S. treasury, as in an old-fashioned attic, valuable relics may be misplaced but rarely lost. Last week, after three days' frantic search, the Alaskan check turned up in a musty drawer of the General" Accounting Office where it had reposed since 1921. By this time, the House had passed Delegate Dimond's bill and it had gone to the Senate Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs. The Senate Committee decided that, since the check, a piece of national property, was so easily lost, it would be better to send a photostatic copy...
Four free public lectures on Alaskan exploration, baroque and rococo music, political theory, and various aspects of the world's climate, head a busy day for rostrum mounters here this afternoon and evening...
Aerial mapping in cooperation with the Navy and the results of systematic surveys from 1898 to the present come under the ken of R. H. Sargent, of the United States Geological Survey. Profiter from 25 years of Alaskan experience, he is scheduled to give an illustrated lecture at 2:30 o'clock in the Geographical Institute...
...earthquake avalanching down old ice and snows from the higher slopes forces an impulse through the glacier. It is a wave motion and the longer the glacier, the longer it takes to reach the foot. Scientists pooh-poohed a man named Lawrence Martin when he declared right after the Alaskan earthquake of 1899 that it would set a whole string of coastal glaciers in motion years later. He made up a time-table for each glacier. It was surprisingy accurate. From 1906 to 1910, just as he prophesied, each glacier began to move...
...this movement exhausts the catchment basins. And even the heaviest Alaskan snowfalls we can hope to expect, are inadequate to compensate. This wave motion has a suction effect, drags a lot of ice with it, thins the glacier over its length. When the impulse has expended itself, there follows a period of very rapid shrinkage at the foot of the glacier. Black Rapids Glacier may continue to move for six months to two years. Then it will recede. Five years hence it will have dwindled five miles back up its valley...