Word: cheechakos
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...Last week Band Leader Vincent Lopez announced that he had discovered Alaska's first swing song, The Ice-Worm Wiggle, or Akh-Tu-Wu-Ye-Keh, Cheechako ("Welcome Stranger"). The piece begins: See the sneaking, peeping ice worms wiggle. Its chorus...
...home-made programs for Alaska's own needs. It will announce airplane arrivals and departures to a people who fly 17 times as much per capita as their fellow citizens in the States. It hopes to teach the sourdough how to make better biscuits, and to school the cheechako (tenderfoot) in the art of mining. It will broadcast four to six news periods...