Word: alaskan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boom Town. Seattle, a city then so new that many a citizen could remember shooting deer inside its limits, was the product of great booms-the migration, which followed the railroad, the Alaskan gold stampede, the frenzied era of shipbuilding during World...
...processing fish for hotels and other big customers, one company has built big tile workrooms that are as gleaming as a Hollywood steam bath. The market lives up to its boast: "If it swims, we handle it." The Fulton fishmongers supply such exotic morsels as Japanese frog legs, Alaskan king crabs, Indian pompano, Irish bloaters and South African alewives...
Idleness sat ill on Klondike Mike. Along with his Alaskan partner, George Rich, he started a trucking business in Ottawa, built it into one of the biggest in Canada. Then he took a major step. At 53, he learned to read and write...
...Congressmen, Forrestal's chiefs of staff explained in astonishing detail how they would employ the military establishment which he proposed. A little more than a quarter of a million troops would have to be used in occupation and garrison duties. Alaskan forces should be increased from 7,000 to 15,000 combat and air-service troops. The balance (510,000) would be the nation's ready force, whose various missions would be to repulse an invasion, deny nearby bases to the enemy, secure faraway bases for the Air Force...
...Alaskan weather was tough. The little planes had no de-icing equipment. They hopped along the Aleutian chain and on down the Alaska Highway, taking chances all the way with dwindling daylight and freezing weather...