Word: alaskan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...When a lead dog of a sled team grows old, the Eskimos shoot him," an Alaskan had warned grimly. And though he still begins his day at 6 a.m. with 30 minutes of calisthenics and an icy bath, Alaska's Ernest Henry Gruening is 81. No matter that for nearly three decades he has pulled his state's sled as territorial governor, statehood advocate and, since 1959, U.S. Senator. Last week, borrowing a tradition from the Eskimos, Alaskan Democrats delivered the coup de grāce to Gruening's long and vigorous political life. In the state...
Gruening protested that the appointment ought to go to an Alaskan, but once on the ground he quickly became one himself. He worked tirelessly to make his territory a state, began by promoting the famed Alcan Highway, outlawing discrimination against natives (Eskimos, Indians and Aleuts), starting to collect taxes from companies doing business in the territory. After he retired from the governorship in 1953, he urged statehood in a 600-page book (The State of Alaska) and dozens of magazine articles...
...Yellow Submarine. Up and down the glittering beach front, there was hardly a hotel with closet space to rent. The Alaskan delegation was quartered in the South Seas Hotel; landlocked Kansas was assigned to the Sea Gull. Wisconsin's delegates made a felicitous choice in the Crown, whose Roaring 20s Club should make Milwaukeeans in particular feel right at home with its nickel beer. Unhappiest of all were the Pennsylvanians, who landed in the Diplomat, 14 miles up the beach and closer to Fort Lauderdale than to the hall. To spare himself the long trip, Pennsylvania's Governor...
Susie No. 1. Since the merger, Atlantic Richfield has increased combined oil reserves from 1.8 billion bbl. to 2.1 billion, added 52 new producing wells for a total of 7,132, and built more than 500 new service stations while modernizing others. Now the Alaskan find is quite a layer of frosting on the cake. "Everybody else," says Anderson, "had pretty well written the Arctic Slope off because of cost, indifferent success, and the absolute need for a major discovery in order to have commercial significance." Atlantic Richfield thought about writing off the area too. On their 90,000 acres...
...does not let a citizen vote until he is 21.* An 18-year-old can be drafted, and he can be held fully responsible before the law, can even be given the death penalty in some states, but he cannot cast a ballot except in Kentucky and Georgia. An Alaskan can vote at 19, a Hawaiian at 20. Last week Lyndon Johnson moved to enfranchise all the 10 million Americans between...