Word: matanuska
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the Matanuska colonists have had their spuds and fodder snowed under (TIME, Oct. 23, p. 19), we look forward to another epidemic of new sob stories drooling over the hardships for which this region is celebrated...
...curtain in a Broadway playhouse went up, several years ago, on an Alaskan valley and a colony of bankrupt, wrangling, hopeful, bewildered, bitter Midwesterners transplanted there by the U. S. Government. The play was called 200 Were Chosen. Act I-"This is the Matanuska Valley-best little "valley in South Alaska. The Government brung you here and it's gonna...
Last week this Broadway drama of hardships was bleak reality. As the farmers of Matanuska Valley, after four years' uneven struggle against mounting debts for machinery and equipment supplied by the Government, prepared to reap the best harvest in years and write off some of their obligations, an Arctic blast sent the mercury down to 10° below zero. Potatoes froze in the field, 80% of the grain stood in the field, unharvested and ruined, acres of market produce were destroyed, and under a foot and a half of snow the Valley lay in white, stricken silence...
...resettled relief families still living in the Matanuska Valley project (200 families started out) now make a comfortable living, will do well. Some have made as much as $6,000 each per year...
...Hard-bitten Walter G. Pippel is Matanuska Valley's real moneymaker. He grossed $ 11,000 in 1936-37 raising cabbages, tomatoes, turnips, potatoes, now grosses $200 a week. When U. S. colony agents insisted that he sign a purchase contract for his farm-with the reservation that the colony farms remain in the cooperative -stubborn Mr. Pippel balked, refused to sign, hawked his produce at Anchorage. Resigning from the cooperative, Pippel went to court. Last August the case of People v. Pippel was settled out of court. Individualist Pippel agreed to vacate his colony farm and start all over...