Word: alaskas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...balls. Then in 1867, Russia ceded its American possession to the U.S. for $7,200,000-a price that comes to about $12 per square mile. It was the crowning irony of one of the more ironic chapters in Russian history. For Russia did not really want to sell Alaska-any more than the U.S. really wanted...
Sought Bridge. Perhaps the first irony was that private Russian initiative developed Alaska for the imperialist Czars. In 1741, when Russia sent two ships east from the Kamchatka peninsula in Siberia, it was interested mainly in settling a debate over the existence of a land link between Asia and America...
Doomed Business. Author Chevigny, who has written two earlier books on Russia's American misadventure, suggests in this one that the colony was probably doomed from the start. The Czars never opened the new land to immigration. Alaska was run as a fur business, whose board members voted themselves handsome dividends and occupied a luxurious building on St. Petersburg's Moika Quai...
...Kentucky and Tennessee, which have no test. The 50 per cent provision eliminates the state of North Carolina 51.8 per cent of whose eligible citizens voted in November (though 31 of the state's 100 counties would come under the provisions of the bill,). Only six Southern states and Alaska would be affected, and some of these may be able to obtain a court judgment declaring them exempt from the provisions...
...residence either were not registered as of Nov. 1, 1964, or did not vote in the 1964 elections. This farflung net would catch a good many states and counties where hardly anyone pretends that discrimination exists: a county in Maine, for instance, and the entire state of Alaska...