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...Group has turned out a series of ten Christmas booklets written and illustrated by artists and musicians. Biggest-selling among these booklets (price 50?) are: a quixotic Christmas story about a dog named Lulu illustrated by Cartoonist Jane Miller; an anecdotal account of a Christmas party in the bleak Alaskan wilderness by Rockwell Kent; a book of Van Loony pictures and Christmas carols by Hendrik van Loon and Pianist Grace Castagnetta...
...power to enforce his threat is limited by the jurisdiction of Interior to District of Columbia parkways, National Parks, Alaskan roads, Indian reservations, etc., but District of Columbia authorities, who know that the rancorous, cankerous Secretary is quite capable of stirring up trouble around the Capital, asked their 167,000 motorists to mend their driving ways...
From Big Diomede Island, where Russia has a new air base, to rocky Little Diomede, which belongs to the U.S., is less than five miles. With Russia's Siberian bases in German hands, Alaska could become another Norway. Congress has authorized $90,000,000 for Alaskan defense, expects to appropriate from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 more in the next few months. The Army is hard at work building new airfields; Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said the Navy's new base at Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutian Islands, will be ready Sept...
Ever since his election in 1936, Warren Magnuson has been trying to get Congressional funds for a highway from Seattle to Alaska. He is chairman of the Alaskan International Highway Commission, has helped survey the wild terrain through which the road would pass, has flown over every mile of the proposed route...
Only last summer Washburn sealed Mt. Bertha, precipitous Alaskan peak, accompanied by four undergraduates: Maynard M. Miller '43; Thomas Winship '42; Alvah Morrison '43; and Lee Wilson, '42. He is to speak on this trip and will illustrate his talk with colored slides and motion pictures. To conclude the program William H. Forbes '23 of the Fatigue Laboratory will discuss the effects of high altitude...