Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Serving from 1909 to 1919 under four Secretaries of Interior (Garfield, Ballinger, Fisher, Lane) Andrew Christensen had charge of investigation of all public land matters in Alaska, notably the coal land cases which caused bitter controversy between Secretary Ballinger and Gifford Pinchot, then head of the Forest Service. Later he directed construction of the Alaska Railroad from Seward to Fairbanks...
...Alaska is "the spoiled child of Uncle Sam," a place of impossible conditions, where there are no resources to justify a permanent population. Only profitable resource in the territory, according to Mr. Christensen, is fishing along the southern coast. Alaskan coal- prime reason for building the railroad-is worthless. The few copper, quartz gold and placer mines will eventually be worked...
...only in subways does Mrs. Tubman sing the National Anthem. She has sung it in an Army blimp 3,000 ft. in the air, in a submarine, a coal mine, on ships at sea, in jails, insane asylums, "on the highest mountains in Switzerland," over the radio, in schools, churches and homes. Says she: "I'm always the first to sing it. I never let anyone get ahead...
Hero of Roll River's second part is Clara's nephew Tom, who pursues a respectable if undistinguished career through boarding school. Yale and the first stages of his family coal business. He cautiously gives the slip to the rather alarmingly attractive girl he should have married, and staidly weds his insipid opposite number. In Paris during the War he meets the right girl again, but does the decent thing and goes home to his wife and family. Later, when he is just on the point of breaking away for good, the resigned example and advice...
...rolls all the way down to the 1920's. Its scene is "Midian," a western Pennsylvania town (Author Boyd's native place was near Harrisburg, Pa.). First part tells the tragic love story of Clara Rand, only daughter of Midian's coal tycoon. Clara was the greatest catch in town but she was also a character in her own right. When Fitz-Greene Rankin, a suave young newcomer from Philadelphia, began to court her, fascinated Clara put up little or no resistance; neither did her parents after they had investigated Fitz-Greene's ancestry and prospects...