Word: alaskan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nome, lock, stock & barrel. On the plains east of the city, Marks Air Force Base-once the hub of several satellite fields and home for 10.000 World War II troops-was deserted save for its housekeepers and the solitary comings & goings of commercial airliners. The little (pop. 1,852) Alaskan coastal city, just under 30 jet-driven minutes from Siberian fighter outposts, last week found herself 500 miles out in front of the new U.S. defensive position...
...that the Army and the United States Brewers Foundation were engaged in a "brazen" plot to get intoxicants to soldiers, and demanded that everybody in authority in the U.S. keep a clear head by swearing off for the duration. She also suggested that Congress investigate the drinking habits of Alaskan Eskimos, on the ground that the corrosive effect of alcohol in the North fairly invited a Russian invasion...
...facts, said the Senator, which conclusively showed a "strong and personal alliance between the Russian Soviet cause and the present Secretary of the Interior, who is now urging Alaskan statehood . . ." Schoeppel wanted it clearly understood that he was not arguing against Hawaiian and Alaskan statehood (which President Truman urged Congress last week to approve before it quits for the year). But if he was for it, why was he raising the cry of Communism? Before
...exodus from Nome was only part of a process by which Alaskan military commanders were getting ready for trouble. The command had taken great pains to rehearse the evacuation of wives & children of servicemen. At Kodiak, women & children had been tagged, checked off big lists, and marched to the waterfront in a driving rain to test the evacuation plan. At Fairbanks, Big Delta, Shemya and Adak, they had hurried to airfields with their baggage...
Slit trenches and new antiaircraft batteries were appearing at many an Alaskan airfield. The Air Force was about to put a dozen men adrift on the ice, 200 miles north of Point Barrow, and leave them there for two months to study the tricks of keeping alive after bailing...