Word: alaskan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him Territorial Governor of Alaska in 1939, chunky, mercurial Ernest Gruening has campaigned vehemently for the abolition of his office. Last week, testifying at a congressional hearing on Alaskan statehood, he reiterated his reasons. Alaska, he said, can never really develop until it becomes a full-fledged member of the Union, takes part in presidential elections, chooses its own governor, and sends Senators and a Congressman to Washington to fight its battles...
...preponderance of war art is noticeable in all mediums, with photos of embarking troops, a French village, and a painting of a remote Alaskan church lending an international air to the show...
...just finished a term as an Alaskan federal judge, and was cleaning out his chambers, when somebody came along with a consolation prize. How would he like to start a college in Alaska and become its president? Pennsylvania-born, Bucknell-educated Charles Ernest Bunnell thought he might, on one condition: whenever he decided that the college could get along without him, he would quit and return...
Many an ordinary Alaskan had reason to be grateful to the University. More than 5,000 had taken its five-week courses in mining, taught by roving staff members to would-be prospectors...
...long ago, even a trickle of heat can turn it to slithery muck. Roads and airport runways, absorbing summer sun, get as squashy as cranberry bogs. In winter, the warmth of a heated building may seep into the permafrost, allowing floors to sink and walls to wobble drunkenly. Many Alaskan villages, built in defiance of permafrost, look like modernist paintings, their streets slanting sideways and their buildings out of line...