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...post was an eight-man weather station on Fletcher's Island, a great mass of ice floating in the Arctic Ocean. It was discovered more than two years ago by the Alaskan Air Command, and colonized last March with assorted weathermen, scientists and communication experts. Then, moving eastward at 2½ miles a day, it floated into the jurisdiction of the Northeast Air Command...
...Alaskan airmen did not put up much of a fight. After a tricky deployment of Pentagon charts of organization, the ice men became naturalized employees of the Northeast Air Command (headquarters: Pepperrell Air Force Base, Newfoundland). If Fletcher's Island continues to creep far enough eastward, it will eventually enter the territory of some Soviet air command. Then the Air Force guardian of lines of demarcation will have a trickier problem...
...awarding Phillips the first Alaskan oil development contract, the Government set stiff terms. Phillips will have to spend at least $1,200,000 on exploration before June 30, 1956, and another 40? an acre on the million-acre tract every year thereafter. It must also sink two wells by 1956, start another two by the middle of 1958, and drill a well a year in each of the two adjoining districts* (Katalla-Yakataga) from 1959 to 1963, making a total of twelve wells in ten years. Phillips will lose the rights to land it does not develop under the terms...
...University of Kansas in 1920, just short of graduation, to join Phillips as a warehouse clerk. By 1932 he was assistant to President Frank Phillips. At 35, Adams was named treasurer, and in 1938 he became president. He moved up to board chairman 13 years later. In the Alaskan venture, Phillips, as usual will put up the money, Kermac crews will do the geological exploring and drilling...
...Alaskan politics seldom seem to bear much relation to the politics of the nation at large. The territory's isolated citizenry cannot vote for President, are entitled to send only a non-voting delegate to Congress, and must put up with governors appointed by the White House. Nevertheless, the Alaskan vote, cast before the rest of the national ballots in a presidential year, has accurately anticipated national political trends over the last 20 years...