Word: alaskan
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This deal won her the title "Chrome Queen," convinced her that the chrome world was at her feet. So she spent her time nailing down an option on huge Alaskan chrome deposits, running up $700-monthly telephone bills, nightclubbing. Then she stormed Washington, surprised everybody but herself by landing the biggest chromite contract ever: $846,000 for 25,000 tons. Then came trouble. The Alaskan mine was under 30 feet of snow, could be mined only at terrific cost. Dot flopped on her contract, got back to her California mines with only $11 in her worn purse...
...drying up. It is all the fault of: 1) the 13th Naval District which issued an order restraining "nonessential" cargoes to 10% of the total cargo; 2) War Shipping Administration which has ordered that liquor be shipped to Alaska only if it did not displace war materials. Some Alaskan liquor dealers started rationing stocks to stretch them out, others threw open the doors in an effort to get the "agony over with as quickly as possible...
...their attacking Siberia grew dimmer as winter crept like a paralysis over the far North. In their present state of harassment they were no great threat to the North American coastline. They had failed to block communications to Asia: cargo planes bypassed them, flew across the Bering Sea; Alaskan air routes were in operation. Last week the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce revealed that supplies in quantity were being flown from the U.S. to Alaska, thence to Russia and China. U.S. bombers may one day take the same route...
...Alaskan situation was in hand...
...checks in Alaska are no longer settled with bags of Klondike gold, but pennies are still so scarce in the Territory that last week Leon Henderson had to modify his general maximum price order, froze Alaskan prices to the nearest nickel instead of the nearest cent...