Word: seward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ROBERT CLARK Seward, Alaska...
...children, methodically counts heads as he passes from room to room. Then, midst the morning chatter and leggy tumbling of this brood, the Governor of Alaska hoists his three youngest children to the stately hardwood table on which, 91 years earlier, U.S. Secretary of State William Seward proudly signed the historic Alaska purchase with Russia (for $7,200,000) and, one by one, proceeds to diaper them...
...billion board feet a year (v. 33 billion Stateside). Scarcely tapped, too, is Alaska's mineral treasure, which boasts 31 of the 33 metals on the U.S.'s critical list (exceptions: industrial diamonds, bauxite). The North American continent's only major tin deposits lie in the Seward Peninsula, and some of the world's biggest known iron-ore deposits wait in the Klukwan section. Coal, as one engineer says, is "all over the damn place...
...summary:Sears (H) d. Callaway, 6-4, 6-1, Gallwey (H) d. Crockwell, 6-1, 6-0; Weld (H) d. Bullock, 6-3, 6-4; Goldman (H) d. Flatteau, 6-1, 6-2; Vinton (H) d. Seward, 6-0, 6-0; Wood (H) d. Sprendkel, 6-1, 9-7; Gallwey and Vinton (H) d. Bullock and Crockwell, 6-1, 6-3; Weld and Wood (H) d. Seward and Sprenkel, 6-1, 6-1; and Callaway and Flatteau (B) d. Briggs and Chute...
Sputtering over their gin and tonics, flushed with rage to the color of their rum Cokes, the loyal colonials directed a flood of letters and telephone calls to the News's managing director, Seward Toddings. He was invited to "come to the Queen of Bermuda and bring a piece of rope." He was advised that he should be operating a furnace in hell instead of a newspaper. The House of Assembly hastily voted its hearty displeasure, profound indignation, and poignant regret over the editorial. The News, visibly stiffening its upper lip. explained at length that no offense was intended...