Word: alaskas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...house-hungry, comfort-starved Alaska, Shangri-La is a place called POW. Officially, POW is the 400-acre Port of Whittier, located on an arm of ice-free Prince William Sound and back-dropped by the glaciated peaks of the Chugach Mountains, which provide some of the world's wildest, most breathtaking scenery...
...story Hodge building is the tallest apartment house in Alaska, with 177 apartments of up to three bedrooms, bachelor officer quarters for 39, lounges, 28 laundries, rows of freezers, snack rooms, playrooms and hobby rooms. A network of tunnels connects the Hodge and other buildings, including a schoolhouse with a capacity of 200 pupils. Beyond all this is an assortment of service shops, a boat shop, telephone exchange, gymnasium, fire station, warehouses, steel docks-and a $5,500,000 power plant with enough juice (6,500 kw.) to supply a town of at least 2,000 people. The place...
...more than 800 air miles from Brownsville to the northwest corner of the Panhandle. El Paso is halfway between Houston and Los Angeles. Of Texas' 254 counties, 77 are about the same size as Rhode Island. Its 267,339 square miles are exceeded only by the state of Alaska. Texas has the world's largest vegetable farm (at Edinburg), the nation's deepest hole (a 25,340-foot dry well in Pecos County), even the world's largest factory for medical-school skeletons (Gatesville...
Slow Reading. Earlier Tiros satellites stored their pictures on magnetic tape, then transmitted a large batch while passing over expensive installations at Fairbanks, Alaska, Point Mugu, Calif., and Wallops Island, Va. By the time the views from space were forwarded to the world's meteorologists by radio facsimile, they were often too late to help in the forecasts of local weather. But Tiros VIII carries a new type TV camera; its shutter opens for three-thousandths of a second, forming a photoelectric picture of about 1,000,000 square miles of earth. Instead of fading almost instantly like...
None of this means that "learn, learn, learn" is about to supplant "fight, fight, fight" on U.S. campuses. From Anchors Aweigh to All Hail Alaska, the college song is still uniquely American. Britons save their tears for school songs like Harrow's Forty Years On. Oxbridge has s no official songs whatever. Germans I and Frenchmen sing of beer and wine...