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...Last week Pan Am's Bermuda Clipper (Betsy to her crews) flew north from Seattle with a new name on her tidy hull-Alaskan Clipper. Lugging deadhead passengers from CAA, Army and Navy, she sat down at Ketchikan, Alaska, soon whisked off, finished her run at Juneau. This week Betsy-a four-motored Sikorsky S-42-will go into regular twice-a-week service, lugging passengers and mail from Seattle to Juneau in seven hours, bringing the vast, untapped riches of the Territory within 24 hours of Manhattan. At Juneau, Betsy will have scheduled connections...
...long ago Otto Ohlson laid up "B2" (a Dodge sedan fitted with railroad wheels to carry Ohlson on inspection tours over his lonely tracks) and "went outside" (Alaskan for getting out of Alaska-A. R. R. employes get a 26-day vacation with pay each year so they can do it). Last week in New Deal Washington Republican Ohlson was getting ready to ask Congress for an appropriation of some $5,000,000 to build a 14-mile cutoff to the sea some 66 miles above Seward (see map) to make the Fairbanks-to-the-States run faster and cheaper...
...curtain in a Broadway playhouse went up, several years ago, on an Alaskan valley and a colony of bankrupt, wrangling, hopeful, bewildered, bitter Midwesterners transplanted there by the U. S. Government. The play was called 200 Were Chosen. Act I-"This is the Matanuska Valley-best little "valley in South Alaska. The Government brung you here and it's gonna...
...supply of raw and manufactured material to equip and supply land & sea forces of at least 1,000,000 men for a period of not less than one year. It also demanded a Navy second to none, bases at Guam and Wake Islands, an impregnable Panama Canal, an Alaskan National Guard. With no less passion it asked for legislation to outlaw the Communist Party...
...Alaska cannot be developed without large investments of private capital working under Government charters that would limit profits and prevent further drainage of Alaskan wealth to absentee owners...