Word: alaskan
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Marcel the valet took cruel punishment in an Alaskan camp until he innocently shot four huge bears and taught the foreman la savate (pedal boxing...
...state that Nome is on the west coast of the Alaskan peninsula"; and that Anchorage is on the "south shore of the peninsula, meaning, presumably, the "Alaskan" peninsula also...
...Alaskan" peninsula begins between the 59th and 60th degrees of North Latitude and extends in a southwesterly direction to Unimak Pass, where the Aleutian Islands begin. Anchorage is at the head of Cook Inlet and is more than 120 miles northeast of where the Alaska peninsula begins; while Nome is situate on the south coast of Seward peninsula, many hundred miles from the Alaska peninsula. Anchorage is north of the 61st parallel of North Latitude and Nome is north of the 64th parallel. If you referred to the great body of land between Cook Inlet and Norton Sound...
...fuel and supplies all over the globe and generally carrying out a gigantic task in organization. Of course, Uncle Sam had to dig much deeper into his pocket in reality. Indirect expenses, such as the cost of fuel burned by destroyers in the Pacific, by Coast Guard cutters in Alaskan waters, by scout cruisers and destroyers in the North Atlantic, were borne by the Navy, not the Air Service-but the taxpayer paid for them nevertheless...
...when Senator Capper brought them together. Upon his appointment, Mr. Wallace succeeded his friend of long standing, Edwin Thomas Meredith of Des Moines. In office, Mr. Wallace conducted the Department's affairs with quiet industry and without notable occurrences other than his staunch opposition to the proposed transfer of Alaskan forest reserves to the control of Secretary Fall's Department of the Interior. This fight was long and bitter. In his speech of July, 1923, President Harding let it be known that he sided with Mr. Wallace and against Secretary Fall. The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department...