Word: alaskan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prototype of Edna Ferber's central character in Ice Palace. He grew up in gold-crazed Fairbanks, went to Washington in 1932 to serve as secretary to the territorial Delegate. In 1944 he was elected a Delegate to Congress, where for 14 years he led the fight for Alaskan statehood-after which a grateful electorate awarded him a senatorial seat by an overwhelming majority...
None of the oil is likely to reach U.S. markets until 1971. The companies and the Alaskan state government are still mulling over ways to move it. The companies prefer a pipeline to a relatively ice-free port like Valdez. The line would have to weather destructive ground heaves caused by summer thaws and winter freezes and could cost $500 million or more. Alaska's Governor Walter J. Hickel is pushing his longtime dream of extending the Alaska Railroad beyond its present Fairbanks terminal all the way to the Arctic Sea. Washington's Department of Transportation, which runs...
...Dino Dollars game. Because of the weakness of the pound, Her Majesty's government would never approve payment of $300 million in sterling. So B.P. plans to pay in dollars over a six-year period beginning in 1972. That is just about when the company's recent Alaskan strikes will presumably begin pouring out oil-and pulling in dollars-in quantity...
...When a lead dog of a sled team grows old, the Eskimos shoot him," an Alaskan had warned grimly. And though he still begins his day at 6 a.m. with 30 minutes of calisthenics and an icy bath, Alaska's Ernest Henry Gruening is 81. No matter that for nearly three decades he has pulled his state's sled as territorial governor, statehood advocate and, since 1959, U.S. Senator. Last week, borrowing a tradition from the Eskimos, Alaskan Democrats delivered the coup de grāce to Gruening's long and vigorous political life. In the state...
Gruening protested that the appointment ought to go to an Alaskan, but once on the ground he quickly became one himself. He worked tirelessly to make his territory a state, began by promoting the famed Alcan Highway, outlawing discrimination against natives (Eskimos, Indians and Aleuts), starting to collect taxes from companies doing business in the territory. After he retired from the governorship in 1953, he urged statehood in a 600-page book (The State of Alaska) and dozens of magazine articles...