Word: alaskas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alaska (3): The state's economy is based on federal spending, and Alaskans are banking on help from Washington to rebuild after last March's earthquake. Given Goldwater's dim view of big federal spending, a Johnson victory...
...Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and West Virginia. There are also seven states where ballots have a separate section for the presidential election but permit the voter to choose a straight ticket for all other offices. They are Georgia, Indiana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Vermont and Wisconsin...
...citizens, either civilian residents abroad or members of the armed forces. Despite the red tape of obtaining absentee ballots, English-born, American-educated (Yale '29) Democrat Anthony Hyde in London believes that Europe might cast 100,000 votes, adding, "Just think, almost as many as the state of Alaska...
...income-producing endeavor. Retired General Motors Executive Martin C. McGowan owes $19,864 in taxes for 1957-59, said the court, because in those years he deducted more than $40,000 for cameras, film and travel costs on two African safaris and trips to India, the Far East and Alaska. McGowan, who earned $53,819 in his last full year (1956) with G.M., had shown movies of the trips to various paying groups and had made one television show, but, said the court, he had "never employed a booking agent," done much advertising or seemed concerned about profits...
West Virginia puts on a demonstration of glass blowing; Montana has a trainload of Western collector's items, including an invitation to a hanging, Calamity Jane's thundermug, and Buffalo Bill's silver-handled toothbrush. Alaska has brought in Chilkat Indians to custom-carve totem poles (at $100 a running foot). General Cigar offers a magic show. Indonesia demonstrates shadow puppets, Oregon runs a lumberjack carnival, Polynesia sells chunks of fresh sugar cane. Socony Mobil tests your reflexes in a simulated driving-hazard test. Sinclair Oil has a forest of dinosaurs, and the Scott pavilion boasts...