Word: alaskas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alaska (3): A solid G.O.P. organization under Governor Walter Hickel should carry the once safely Democratic state for Nixon...
...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...
...Conference at Montevideo and helped hammer out the New Deal's Good Neighbor policy. The following year, Roosevelt appointed him to head the Interior Department's new Division of Territories and Island Possessions, a post he held until 1939, when the President named him territorial governor of Alaska...
...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...
...more time at a spot near the Arctic Ocean at Prudhoe Bay. Working in -60° weather that snapped wrenches like matchsticks and froze the drilling equipment whenever work stopped, Atlantic as the working partner of the two brought in oil. The industry and the state of Alaska haven't been the same since. Competing companies who were about to pull out of the North Slope are renewing their efforts. The state government is talking about constructing a railroad and highway from Fairbanks, 390 miles away, to the North Slope fields. On Wall Street, Atlantic Richfield stock that...