Word: ketchikan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Point Barrow to Ketchikan-in mining camps, beauty parlors, banks, offices, hangars, in remote villages with names like Tolstoi, Meehan, Kanatak and Nugget-visitors and Alaskans felt a mounting fever. For, after a short winter letdown, the boom was back with the summer...
...gambler's restlessness stirred among the fleet of salmon trollers and purse seiners in Ketchikan, Juneau and Sitka, and at moorings along a thousand miles of hemlock-studded coast. In May this fleet and Alaskan canneries had been strikebound. But the 1947 fishing season could still mean riches. Prices were up, and even last year's niggling pack (3,971,109 cases) had brought a record $59 million...
...Rock. In Ketchikan, Alaska, Mrs. Fred West awoke suddenly from a sound sleep, found that a construction blast had dropped a huge boulder on the pillow next her head...
...Arctic Circle to Point Barrow, ate whale meat, and walked through a litter of walrus heads to duck into native shacks. He surprised his guides by landing two-foot rainbow trout in the Kenai River. He also listened-and listened. Everywhere he went-Fairbanks, Point Barrow, Anchorage, Seward, Juneau, Ketchikan, Sitka, Metla Katla-Alaskans who had always wanted to tell the Secretary of the Interior what they thought of the Government proceeded...
Krug did not always agree. He bluntly asked citizens of Ketchikan to "face reality," said he could get little money from Congress until Alaska got some of its own by local taxation. He was less than enthusiastic about the gold industry, which dredges up gold to be sold to the Government at an artificial $35 an ounce and is then carefully reburied in Treasury vaults...