Word: kodiak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more rugged spots-far in advance of the "country clubs" like Pearl Harbor, Noumea, Kodiak-movies are the only form of entertainment. The poorest show will draw a full house. Often 4,000 to 5,000 men will sit on wet ground, sometimes in pouring rain, through an entire feature-length picture...
...Kodiak, Alaska...
Self-Made Russian. Shelekhov planted his settlement on Kodiak Island-in the lee of the peninsula that breaks into the bits and pieces of the Aleutians. To manage his new colony Shelekhov chose middle-aged Merchant Aleksandr Andrevich Baranov. Baranov was that rarest of Russians, a self-made man. He began as a small trader, worked his way to ownership of a Siberian glass factory. Baranov is the hero of Author Chevigny's impressive history of young Alaska...
...censorship in which Alaska was muffled last week one ray of sunshine peeped: a letter from Major Bill Adams, onetime West Coast radioman. Printed in Broadcasting the letter told of a little "one-lung outfit," KODK, whose tiny transmitter made a welcome whistle in lonely Fort Greely on Kodiak Island...
...months ago this little broadcasting outfit, which the men now call "the greatest thing ever to hit Fort Greely" was a gleam in Major Adams' eye. By December, transmitter, turntable, mikes, etc. (purchased with money from a lottery) arrived on Kodiak Island. By January the station was on the air with what the Army calls "horse-blankets" (discs), strictly sweet music for the starved listeners. Soon Kodiakers were filing into the studio with their guitars, mandolins, fiddles, anxious to help...