Word: seward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fire, flood and boom all swept Alaska last week. The fire swept through Seward, southern terminus of the Alaska Railroad. The blaze started in the Second Chance Barber Shop, raged for eight hours, destroyed half the town (pop. 949). Army officers set up emergency kitchens, found shelter for the homeless. In the rest of Alaska, men were fighting not fire but water...
Half the Indians in Alaska are reasonably good Episcopalians now, but when Bishop Peter Trimble Rowe was sent out to convert them the territory was still just "Seward's Icebox" and the natives were more impressed by their totem poles than by the cross...
Scratch. In Seward, Neb., one Merle Burkholder dislocated his shoulder scratching a match...
Practically the whole National Defense Mediation Board last week suffered from a common disease. Vice Chairman William Hammatt Davis of the Mediation Board was in conference one afternoon with other Board members and the Board's young executive secretary, Ralph Theodore Seward, when Seward's head drooped. His eyes grew heavy behind his thick glasses, and suddenly he was asleep. Nudged awake, he stumbled across the room, fell onto a divan, and slept the rest of the afternoon...
...President announced that he would make a trip himself this week-stops at Johnstown and Seward, Pa.; a tour of Pittsburgh; tours in Youngstown, Columbus, Dayton, Ohio, climaxed by a worldwide radio broadcast from the parlor car of the train at Dayton...