Word: nome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into regular twice-a-week service, lugging passengers and mail from Seattle to Juneau in seven hours, bringing the vast, untapped riches of the Territory within 24 hours of Manhattan. At Juneau, Betsy will have scheduled connections (via Pan Am's Pacific Alaska Airways) to Fairbanks and Nome, three hours farther west on the Bering...
...union (A. F. of L.) won much-needed public good will when it agreed to drop overtime, work straight hours repairing plumbing. The Rio Grande Valley was hard hit: half the citrus crop near Brownsville was still on the trees, and Brownsville, at 29°, was colder than Nome, Alaska at 33°; 75% of the tomato crop was believed killed; beets and cabbages in the coastal bend near Corpus Christi were damaged. Estimated value of endangered fruit...
...most spectacular and successful international airline in the world. Spanning 53 countries and colonies in both hemispheres, it owes as much to Juan Trippe's genius for a tough diplomatic bargain as it does to his uncompromising insistence on operating perfection. From Lisbon to Hong Kong, from Nome to Buenos Aires, its 63,000 miles of airways, its 263 bases, run like clockwork. Without Trippe's astute bar gaining in foreign capitals, without his engineer's supervision of technical development, it might today be no more impressive than Britain's conservative Imperial Airways...
...calls "prescriptioneering" and a healthy sense of the vastness -historical, geographical and human-of his Latin American subject matter. He has a knack for bringing things home; e. g. (of the wonderful Spanish conquest): "It was as if the North American land mass had been explored from Cape Nome to Florida, the Rockies and the Appalachians prospected, the Mississippi and the Columbia river systems mapped, Klondike and California gold discovered, and Denver, Seattle, Chicago, Atlanta and every other American city today above a hundred thousand population founded within 50 years after Jamestown...