Word: alaskas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such macabre humor was the exception in the wake of Alaska's Good Friday earthquake. More than 125 were dead or missing in the disaster, most of them in Alaska, the rest as a result of seismic sea waves that hit Oregon and California. The cost in property damage was, by latest estimate, more than $500 million. Downtown Anchorage was decimated; Seward, Kodiak, and scattered towns near the epicenter of the earthquake were all but wiped...
Broke. The state capital, for all practical purposes, was temporarily shifted from Juneau to Anchorage's East Fifth Avenue, where, in a group of house trailers, Governor William Egan and his staff worked themselves to exhaustion to get Alaska back on its feet. They had a bleak time of it as they evaluated information feeding into their headquarters. Roughly 75% of Alaska's industrial output was crippled. Three thousand people no longer had jobs to go to. Home owners and small businessmen with mortgages were teetering on financial ruin. Banks, which hold about $300 million in deposits, feared...
Fifteen hundred miles away, an earthquake was devastating Anchorage, Alaska, and a ring of nearby towns and villages. With the thunderous impact of a mountain falling into the sea, the shock waves from Alaska rippled outward, sending tsunamis (seismic sea waves) around the Pacific, flooding portions of North American western shores, coursing across the sea toward Japan and southward toward Hawaii...
Snapped. All through the night, bands of rescuers worked by flickering flashlight, rummaging through the rubble to find the lost, the injured and the dead. Air Force disaster units flew into Alaska with doctors, nurses, medical equipment and emergency hospital units...
More Cell Space? Last week in Juneau, the Alaska legislature was considering whether to take the U.S. Government up on its bargain-basement offer. The trouble is, Alaskans cannot agree on what they would do with POW if they owned it. Some want to make it the new state capital. Others want to turn it into a tourist resort, or perhaps a sort of deep-freeze Las Vegas. There was a move on to acquire it for a penitentiary; the state's jails are now badly overcrowded. But the plan was defeated when people realized that existing prisons would...