Word: matanuska
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...scheme: to transplant strapped U. S. farm families wholesale to southern Alaska's Matanuska Valley, whose 76,000 tillable acres now support only 117 families. It was decided to send about 1,000 people (200 families) first, follow them with more if the plan worked. The transplantees had to be used to hard winters, so state relief workers in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan were detailed to call for volunteers. Out of 6,000 applicants they picked farm families who had long been on relief, in which father & mother were young, sturdy, courageous. Early last week an advance guard...
...rich Willow Creek gold mines, bituminous coal fields and Matanuska Valley agricultural district are all located within 50 miles of Anchorage...