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...facilities. This would bring in still other industries, open a bright new era for Alaska that might well make the territory selfsupporting. But last week the best-laid plans of the oilmen were held up by a single, formidable obstacle: the big (7 ft. tall, 10 ft. long), shaggy Alaskan moose...
Actually, the moose like to live where men and machines do, and frequently nuzzle up to Alaskan oil derricks to sidewalk-superintend the drilling. Instead of being driven out of the civilized areas, they are rapidly multiplying. Their greatest enemy is not the oilmen, but the Alaska Railroad-a creature of the conservationist Interior Department-which last winter killed 366 moose on the tracks. For those moose who prefer desolation to civilization, there are vast areas of ideal scrub brush and timberland outside Kenai untouched by man or derrick. In fact, only 10% of Alaska's moose live...
Once this occurred, warning would be flashed southward within seconds through the system to the Alaskan Air Command in Anchorage or Pepperrell Air Force Base in Newfoundland, R.C.A.F. headquarters at St. Hubert near Montreal and NORAD at Colorado Springs. From there, over "hot line" red telephones, the alert would be relayed to SAC headquarters in Omaha and the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington for immediate consultation with President Eisenhower, whose decision to give SAC's bombers the "go ahead" could be made and dispatched within five min utes from the time the warning came from the DEW line...
...chains of underwater "listening" lines, now being built parallel to the coasts, to detect and intercept missile-launching submarines several hundred miles out at sea. In addition, a ground DEW line extension is also under construction across the arc of the Aleutian Islands; other holes are plugged by the Alaskan...
Last week one of See It Now's four full-time field teams (each consists of a reporter-director, cameraman, assistant cameraman and sound man) finished a job in Alaska for a show on Alaskan and Hawaiian statehood and flew to Tokyo to join Marian Anderson on a three-month tour of Southeast Asia. Two teams were finishing film for next week's show, The Great Billion Dollar Mail Case, a critical look into the U.S. Post Office. A fourth crew was filming in Europe. In Manhattan headquarters. Friendly pruned incoming footage for perusal by Murrow and began...