Word: alaskan
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...appeared that the Jap attack on Dutch Harbor was more than a reconnaissance, more than an attempt to draw U.S. forces from some other point. It was an end in itself, an effort to seize a foothold for a later drive on the inner Aleutians, the Alaskan mainland and their invaluable bases for long-range U.S. air assaults on Japan-or for Japanese assault on the northwestern...
Author de Seversky pregnantly observes that already big, experimental bombers like the Big and the Martin Mars can carry 18 tons of bombs nearly 8,000 miles. He charges that the U.S. would now- in 1942 -have great fleets of such bombers, able to assault Japan from Alaskan bases, if U.S. officialdom had been properly awake. But he fails to concede that the U.S. is now going into quantity production of bombers able to do many of the things which Sascha and the citizenry want done...
...Spoilers (Universal) is a great Hollywood tradition. Rex Beach wrote the Alaskan adventure tale for all it was worth 36 years ago. Eight years later Hollywood made it into a silent picture starring He-Men William Farnum...
Command Performance, a War Department idea, has struck sparks with the armed forces abroad. To date, an Alaskan private, lonesome for the songbirds which woke him mornings back home in Indiana, has heard his birds; another soldier overseas has heard the voice of his favorite cocker spaniel; bleary Robert Benchley has given a vernal lecture for sailors on The Facts of Life (e.g., "Fish are a very poor example of the Facts of Life . . . because they work under water and . . . don't know anything...
...hero of The Gold Rush is billed as The Lone Prospector, a tenderfoot out for Alaskan gold. In his running narrative, Chaplin calls him "the Little Fellow." With eloquent timing he jaunts along the rim of a ledge high in Chilkoot Pass, unknowingly trailed by a big black bear, and the picture is away...