Word: pribilofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front cover) President Roosevelt was last week out on the blue Pacific aboard the cruiser Houston. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau was on a ranch in Montana. Secretary of Commerce Roper was touring the Pribilof Islands. Secretary of War Dern was at the Panama Canal. Secretary of the Interior Ickes left for parts unknown. Attorney General Cummings started across the continent for Hawaii. In short, most of the New Deal was on vacation...
...Roosevelt machine. They have husbanded their power and still have some jobs on hand to give where they will do the most good in next autumn's campaign. There is a Minister to be appointed to the Irish Free State, an Enumerator of Seals for the Pribilof Islands...
...ladies' backs are warmed by Newfoundlanders' seals. Four-fifths of the world's fur seals belong in the U. S. Government-controlled herds which migrate yearly up the Pacific Coast to Pribilof Islands, chaperoned by Coast Guards and harried only by the harpoons of Indians and Eskimos. On Pribilof only "bachelor seals" (males under seven years old) are killed. North Atlantic seals are fatter than those on Pribilof, are covered with coarse brown hair instead of fur, and lead a harder life. Each winter they swim 1,000 mi. into the Arctic, where they become food, fuel...
...paid Russia $7,200,000 for Alaska in 1867. In the first 40 years the Government made nearly one and one-half times that amount by leasing the privilege of killing seals on the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea, which are a part of Alaska. By then the herd of seals was sadly depleted, so the U. S. made a treaty with Japan, Great Britain and Russia which gave the U. S. exclusive rights to the Pribilof herd. Japan and Great Britain each got 15% of the skins for leaving the seals alone on their way to the islands...
...since made twelve trips to Alaska to see how things were going. Proud of Alaska's seals, he wants no confusion between this fur-bearing variety (Callorhinus alascanus) and the common hair-seal. Alaska has 80% of the world's fur seals. Besides seals, the Pribilof Islands are well stocked with foxes. From these the U. S. gets another item of profit-$27,735 from 777 foxes in the fiscal year...