Word: alaskan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anonymous Alaskan, circa...
Cricks & Daffodils. To Alaskan oldtimers, even the weather had augured well for statehood. Not since 1912, when Alaska first became an organized territory and won its first real, if tiny, measure of home rule, had the winter been so mild and the breakup so early. Parkas, mukluks, beaver caps and sealskin coats were thankfully stored away. The ice was gone from the Yukon River, and from the Porcupine, the Koyukuk and the Selawick. Out to Woodchopper, to Steel Creek, Poorman and a hundred other placer gold camps, packed the glint-eyed prospectors in search of a glint in the sand...
Coffee Royals & "Pan Ginney." Mike Stepovich typifies the pioneer's sense of destiny better than any Alaskan Governor before him. A Republican appointed by a Republican Administration, Stepovich handles himself like a man of the people, and the people-65% Democrats, 35% Republicans- like him that...
...opposes the bill, at least partly because Alaska would probably send a pro-civil-rights delegation to Congress. Only last week did Smith hold his first hearings on the bill, and monopolized the time by questioning New York's Democratic Representative Leo O'Brien, a backer of Alaskan statehood, until the meeting was broken up by a House quorum call. Cunning old Chairman Smith benignly called another meeting for that afternoon-knowing full well that most committee members would be tied up with business on the House floor, e.g., appropriations for the Health, Education and Welfare Department...
...also reasonably clear that a part-Eskimo pilot, one Ross Guildenstern, will blend his dark good looks with Chris's golden beauty to help produce a better Alaska. On the way to an unexceptional ending, Author Ferber generously shares with the reader all her newfound, often interesting Alaskan lore-and when she raises her voice, it sounds as though she really cares...