Word: seward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marco Polos have perhaps done more to expand the frontiers of East-West trade than the emissaries of giant corporations. Familiar with the workings of Sojuzchimexport, Stankoimport, and other mystifyingly complicated Soviet state enterprises, they have been putting together some of the most imaginative deals since William Henry Seward made Alaska a Russian export. Among them...
...long made technically advanced and easy-to-use larger computers for an impressive list of customers, including General Motors, U.S. Steel and Barclays Bank. But its growth was limited because a large part of Burroughs' marketing force was oriented to selling adding machines, the product that Accountant William Seward Burroughs started the company with in 1886 (it still makes them). Executive Vice President Paul S. Mirabito says: "Twenty years ago, this was the most stodgy company in the world. It was run by a guy who had worked his way up from the toolroom...
When Secretary of State William H. Seward bought Alaska from Russia in 1867, his critics quickly asked: Who wants 375 million acres of "icebergia," good only for a few "wretched fish"-even at $7.2 million, or 2? an acre? The answer is now plain: everyone. Most Alaskans see the state as a treasure house of minerals, including the huge North Slope oil reserves on the edge of the Beaufort Sea. Ardent conservationists yearn to protect as much as possible of America's last great wilderness. But standing in the way of fulfilling anyone's wishes was a knotty...
...What Seward purchased was not land, but only the right to tax and administer it. Ownership remained in the hands of Alaska's Eskimos, Aleuts and Indians, who now number some 55,000. Starting in 1959, they pressed their ancient claims. Last week, after years of sporadic haggling, Congress passed a bill to resolve the issue. If the natives approve it, which is considered likely, the bill may be signed into law by President Nixon this week...
...price of what Seward's critics labeled "Icebergia," "Polaria" or "Walrussia...