Word: alaskan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alaska. It, he said, is "so important that it should be considered above the others." He recommended putting a radar screen around the U.S.'s highly vulnerable Arctic border with Russia. He recommended putting an infantry battalion in each of the three major Alaskan air bases. (The Joint Chiefs of Staff have long wanted more troops in Alaska but the Army and Air Force do not have enough housing for them.) "I don't cry wolf," said Ike. "I merely say that that looks like one inadequacy that we could cure with reasonable expenditure...
...their wild state, polar bears and Alaskan brown bears do not mate. For one thing, polar bears live on arctic ice, brown bears on solid ground. They also belong to different species. So when a male polar bear cub named Snow White and a female brown bear cub named Ramona were put together in a cage at the Washington Zoo more than ten years ago, the animal experts did not expect much to happen...
...character largely inspired by much-decorated Major General Frank A. Armstrong Jr., now chief of the Alaskan Air Command, who led the first Flying Fortress daylight assault against the Continent...