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Last week the House of Representatives defeated the bill for Hawaiian-Alaskan statehood after a loud-voiced, low-swinging debate. Loudest and lowest was New York's Republican Representative John Pillion, who discovered that anti-Communism can be used to justify almost any political action...
POLITICAL DUST-UP over CAB attempts to knock two small Alaskan airlines out of their profitable Stateside routes (TIME, Jan. 3) has raised such a furor that CAB has now decided to let them alone. It will recommend that both Pacific Northern Airlines and Alaska Airlines continue to operate into Seattle and Portland along with the big lines, Pan American and Northwest...
...road and can travel over almost any kind of terrain at a speed of 15 m.p.h. The engine cab contains insulated sleeping quarters for four men. To get the giant from Texas to Alaska, Le Tourneau had to ship it on specially built flatcars to Seattle, from there Alaskan Freight will move it to Alaska by boat...
...ALASKAN OIL RUSH has begun at Cook Inlet, just south of Anchorage. So far, Standard Oil of California, Shell Oil, Union Oil and Ohio Oil, plus three smaller groups of independents, have leased some 4,500,000 acres at 25? an acre, have drilled three exploratory wells to a depth of 8,000 ft., found traces...
AIRLINE STORM is raging over the Civil Aeronautics Board's preliminary decision to knock two Alaskan airlines out of their lucrative Stateside business. CAB has decided not to renew temporary permits for routes flown by Pacific Northern and Alaska Airlines between Alaska and the Pacific Northwest (43,013 passengers in 1953), letting Pan American and Northwest Airlines fly the routes alone. But the move has brought such a howl that CAB may be forced to reconsider...