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Once Homer Bone brought a case of Alaskan salmon to the press gallery at the Capitol, invited the newsmen there to help themselves. They tried to, but could not remove the tightly bound wire around the case, whereupon Homer Bone made a sardonic and highly characteristic remark. Said he: "Do you mean that with all the knockers around here you fellows haven't got a hammer...
...because there is ice in Juneau Harbor some months of the year Pan American will use land planes instead of their big Clippers" [TIME, Aug. 15]. Juneau and all other Alaskan seaports are free of ice and open to navigation the year round, except Nome, on Bering Sea, which is open about five months. Juneau, like Chicago, gets its ice from electric refrigeration...
Spawn of the North (Paramount), a sprawling $1,100,000 Western of the North, describes how Henry Fonda, as law & order, drove Akim Tamiroff, as Russian piracy, out of the Alaskan salmon runs in the early 1900s. Whenever Akim Tamiroff's blackhearted Russians were surprised poaching somebody else's fish trap, they were lynched. When Akim Tamiroff's insults became too much for a man to bear, Henry Fonda got into his fishing boat, went out on the bay looking for Akim with a harpoon gun. When Henry's faithful friend George Raft decided to immolate...
Result of an Alaskan gold prospector's spraining his ankle 28 years ago was the creation of a luxury product with an amazing consumer appeal. The prospector was Jacob Schick. Forced to lie in camp several weeks, he spent much of his time thinking up a way to make some money. Rubbing his stubby beard, he hit on the idea of a mechanical shaver. But Schick electric shavers did not appear on the market until 1931, and these first hand-made models sold at $25. Many a man began to wonder how he had got along without one. When...
Polar Bears?" U. S. pundits-including the State Department-solemnly noted that President Roosevelt had "extended the Monroe Doctrine to include Canada" -overlooking the facts that: 1) President Monroe's famed message to Congress in 1823 was specifically occasioned by conversations with Imperial Russia over its Alaskan and Pacific Coast colonies: 2) referred to "the American Continents...