Word: sundborg
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...round-faced man in the press gallery hurriedly placed a long-distance call. His party was 3,300 miles away: the daily News-Miner in Fairbanks, Alaska. In his flat monotone, Publisher Charles Willis ("Bill") Snedden pridefully described his tory in the making to Managing Editor George Sundborg...
Delivery by B-47. In Fairbanks, Managing Editor Sundborg got Snedden 's story on the presses, whirled out the last pages of a special four-color, 40-page issue. He hustled 2,000 copies to nearby Ladd Air Force Base, where a B-47 was about to take off for Washington. By lunch time next day, every Congressman and Senator had a copy of Snedden's News-Miner headlined: CONGRESS APPROVES ALASKA STATEHOOD...
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