Word: alaskan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alaskan sourdoughs scoffed at the whole scheme, pointed to the intense cold, the shallow soil, the short growing season, the hordes of mosquitoes. But Anthony J. Dimond, Alaskan Delegate to the U. S. House, declared: "There is only one possible danger of failure and that lies in the temper of the people...
Chimed Father Bernard Rosecrans Hubbard, famed Alaskan explorer priest: "If they are good enough for the country, the country is good enough for them...
...expedition also crossed from Yukon Territory over the mountains to the Alaskan coast. This is the first time an expedition has accomplished this feat...
...Alaska is "the spoiled child of Uncle Sam," a place of impossible conditions, where there are no resources to justify a permanent population. Only profitable resource in the territory, according to Mr. Christensen, is fishing along the southern coast. Alaskan coal- prime reason for building the railroad-is worthless. The few copper, quartz gold and placer mines will eventually be worked...
...agriculture, Mr. Christensen says that root crops do well because of the long days, but shipping costs preclude development of an outside market; and in his day, not even Alaskans could be persuaded to eat the soggy Alaskan potato. What with the hardships of clearing the land, the short summer season, the extremely cold winters, the plague of mosquitoes and other insects, Mr. Christensen considers the colonists' prospects so glum that the Government will be obliged to support them and eventually return them to the States...