Word: interior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PAUL A. SIPLE Geographer to the U. S. Antarctic Service Department of the Interior Washington...
Norman Mather Littell for Carl McFarland in the Lands Division. A Rhodes Scholar at Oxford (1921-24) from Indiana, Mr. Littell settled in Seattle, where he worked briefly for NRA but made his record in private practice in the Northwest. Interior Department lawyers used to have orders not to consult the Department of Justice. Now they do and the Lands Division is where they do much of their consulting...
Last week Under Secretary of the Interior Harry Slattery defrosted the Ice-Box of the North. In 94 packed pages he reported to Secretary Harold L. Ickes that the planned development of Alaska "is an inescapable moral obligation" of the U. S., that its 590,884 square miles are the "last frontier," that U. S. economy and national defense demand its large-scale settlement, preferably by public-purpose corporations such as the East India Company that developed India for Great Britain, the Plymouth Company that developed the Indian-infested wilds of Massachusetts...
...Coastal mosquitoes are few, but those in the interior bad. Oldtimers swear you can't tell mosquitoes in the interior from ducks, unless you know a lot about ducks. >In southeastern Alaska within five miles of tidewater, enough timber can be cut annually to supply one-quarter of U. S. newsprint needs, in perpetuity, without denting the forests...
...most notable of U. S. regional artists. And his canvas was the second of two oil-and-tempera murals that will be -lifted into place next autumn on the walls of a corridor facing the General Land Office, on the fifth floor of the new Department of the Interior building in Washington...