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...grateful that we are able to be here," said Fred Cohen, son of founder Sheldon Cohen. He added that the Perini Construction Company and the federal government, which funded the project, "accommodated us by moving us several times...
Irving C. Sheldon Saunderstown...
...were no roads into the area and no bridges. In winter you could walk across the frozen river; in summer you could take a boat. But during the spring breakup and the autumn freeze-up the only way you could cross the Susitna was to hire Bush Pilot Don Sheldon to fly you from Talkeetna on the eastern bank over to Old Homesteader Shorty Bradley's pasture on the western side. The land-office man in Anchorage warned them, "That river is a real bear...
...were finished. They earned Shorty's grudging admiration. "Those people did something nobody ever did before in this country," he allowed. "They got a horse in a well and got it out alive." Later that winter Bertha Donaldson fell ill and had to be evacuated by Bush Pilot Sheldon. Soon she. was back, not knowing that her illness, Hodgkin's disease, would some day cause her to leave Alaska and would eventually take her life. In the early spring she wrote in her journal, "I've never seen such a March in my life. The only thing...
...official report before the Cambridge City Council last night, committee chairman Sheldon Krimsky told local officials that nerve gas agents--like those tested at the the controversial Arthur D. Little Laboratory for defense contracts -- should be registered with the city's health commissioner...