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...time, Lankard was a commercial fisherman who sat on the board of the Eyak Corp., which administered the tribe's land rights. He had grown up fishing for salmon and herring in Cordova and never identified with environmentalists. "I used to call them 'granolas,'" he says with a laugh. But he had become concerned about how runoff from logging operations was polluting the streams fish use to spawn...
When he first proposed the idea of forest protection to the Eyak Corp., his fellow board members voted him down, 8 to 1. "They called me a greenie and a tree hugger," he recalls. Undeterred, Lankard gave up his fishing business, set up the Eyak Rainforest Preservation Fund and began lobbying politicians and native Alaskans throughout the state. "Indigenous people have thousands of years of being preservationists," he would argue. "We need to become stewards of the land again." In Lankard's view, not only the trees and streams were endangered; so were the native cultures that depended on them...
...Divests RCA because of antitrust considerations. Creates the GE Credit Corp. to help sell appliances during the Depression...
COMPUTER The revolution started in 1951 with UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer), the first commercial computer in the U.S. Built in 1951 for Remington-Rand Corp., it contained 5,000 vacuum tubes. Today's chip-powered machines, sold by the millions, pack more power than UNIVAC into a laptop...
...Alka-Seltzer 1931, by Miles Laboratory (later Bayer Corp...