Word: kenai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BIGGEST ALASKAN OIL WELL was brought in by Standard Oil Co. (Calif.) on Kenai Peninsula, 40 miles south of Anchorage. New well, largest of four being jointly developed by Standard and Richfield Oil Corp., has capacity of 1,300 bbl. daily...
...ALASKAN OIL WELL, most important since Richfield Oil Corp.'s first discovery well on Kenai Peninsula near Anchorage (TIME, Aug. 5, 1957), was brought in by Standard Oil (Calif.) and Richfield, shows capacity...
...public is this public medicine that even healthy Alaskans from Barrow to Kenai tune in their radios to little else. For titillation, they say, professional entertainment hardly compares. One schoolteacher-nurse's wife, forced to listen during dinner, queasily agrees: "If you've never listened to symptoms while eating chocolate pie, you haven't lived...
Rhapsody in Riches. But Alaska's promise sends statehooders into rhapsody. The oil boom, centered in the Kenai Peninsula, has brought the big U.S. oil companies hurrying north to drill the place full of holes-even though drilling a well there costs almost three times as much as it does at home-and already they have filed for leases on 27 million acres. The timber business racked up $34.3 million in 1957, and that economic youngster is still in short plants. Near Ketchikan, hard by the 16 million-acre Tongass National Forest, is a new, $52½ million pulp...
Opulence & Elements. Alaska has already made a running start with the resource of people. Anchorage, near the Kenai Peninsula, vibrates with a population of 35,000, has an opulent subdivision of $35,000 homes built by enterprising Wally Hickel. Two tall apartment houses peak the skyline, a glassed-in, year-round swimming pool ripples within sight of icy mountains, and fashionably dressed men and women frequent the Westward Hotel's spiffy cocktail lounge. Juneau still straggles with dingy, narrow streets from the roaring gold-rush times. Local phone service ends twelve miles from town, electricity 19 miles, the road...