Word: alaskan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Quincy Adams was only one of a distinguished crew of Eskimos which the expedition employed for excavation. Another of the Eskimos saw the fatal wreck of Will Rogers and Wiley Post off the Alaskan coast in 1935. It was he who ran to the village to report...
Seventeen hundred miles south of its Alaskan base, and only 25 miles from Kamchatka, the long tongue of Soviet territory that hangs down from eastern Siberia, a U.S. four-engine B50 bomber sighted two MIG-15s. One of them closed to a cautious 800 yards and opened fire; the B-50's gunners returned a few bursts. The bomber returned to base undamaged...
...post was an eight-man weather station on Fletcher's Island, a great mass of ice floating in the Arctic Ocean. It was discovered more than two years ago by the Alaskan Air Command, and colonized last March with assorted weathermen, scientists and communication experts. Then, moving eastward at 2½ miles a day, it floated into the jurisdiction of the Northeast Air Command...
...Alaskan airmen did not put up much of a fight. After a tricky deployment of Pentagon charts of organization, the ice men became naturalized employees of the Northeast Air Command (headquarters: Pepperrell Air Force Base, Newfoundland). If Fletcher's Island continues to creep far enough eastward, it will eventually enter the territory of some Soviet air command. Then the Air Force guardian of lines of demarcation will have a trickier problem...
...University of Kansas in 1920, just short of graduation, to join Phillips as a warehouse clerk. By 1932 he was assistant to President Frank Phillips. At 35, Adams was named treasurer, and in 1938 he became president. He moved up to board chairman 13 years later. In the Alaskan venture, Phillips, as usual will put up the money, Kermac crews will do the geological exploring and drilling...