Word: kodiak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prices hit moderate boom levels: $3.50 a night for a bathless room in Kodiak's lone hotel; $20 a month for a tar-paper shack; $65 a month for an unfurnished, one-room, kitchenette and bath apartment in Fairbanks; 10? for laundering a handkerchief; 50? for a bottle of milk in Nome, where there was one lone cow for the entire populace...
Under these conditions in Yakutat, Kodiak, Sitka, Anchorage, from Annette out along Alaska's trunklike Aleutian Islands to Dutch Harbor in Unalaska, men were desperately at work excavating, blasting rock, building a string of fortifications. When the big job was done, the U.S. would have a 2,000-mile flagstone path toward Asia and a natural rampart bristling with man-made ramparts...
...Bank of Kodiak boasted a 314% increase in deposits in nine months. Kodiak's weekly newspaper advertised six transfer companies, six cab companies, six restaurants, nine liquor stores and bars, one laundry. How long the boom would last no one would predict. But in Kodiak, only 600 miles from the Arctic Circle, Coca-Cola hopefully erected a bottling works...
...Navy's Alaskan program is still greater, likely to cost more, for the Navy's job is to range far to sea and it needs bases for submarines, destroyers, capital ships as well as bases for aircraft. Its big establishment will be at Kodiak which Alaskans hope will eventually be made as strong as Hawaii, 2,600 miles directly south. Far west of Kodiak (and about 900 miles farther west than Hawaii) lies the Navy's outmost listening post, Kiska Island, which can be used as an advance base for air and submarine operations. Closer in toward...
...Navy is no less hard at work at its inner defenses along the Inland Passage. For if Kodiak and Dutch Harbor are well defended an invader is likely to make his first thrust there. With a toe hold in Alaska's Panhandle he might end the supply lines of the northern bases while he strengthened his position for raiding against northwest U. S. Big Navy base in the Panhandle will be at Sitka, but other U. S. bases are being set up at Juneau and Ketchikan. A few weeks ago the Indian inhabitants of Metlakatla, on U. S.-owned...