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...rate higher than anywhere else in the U.S.?submitted ideas to a Department of Energy small grants program. Elizabeth Hart of Galena won $13,800 to build a solar greenhouse that will use the body heat of chickens as a source of warmth. R. Charles Vowell of Unalaska got $12,000 for a 10,000-gal. bio-gas generator that uses crab wastes from canneries to produce a burnable methane. Craig Anderson of Kenny Lake received $400 to build a passive solar system that features collectors made of used beer and soft drink bottles. Kyle Green of Wasilla...
Plowing through icy Arctic waters, the Liberty ship Chief Washakie was 45 miles off Unalaska Island on the blustery night of last Dec. 10. At 10:22 her master was startled out of a sound sleep by a sound "like cannon fire"; the Washakie had split her sides open. Held together by her double bottom, the ship limped into Makushin Bay for temporary repairs, then headed for Dutch Harbor 48 miles away...
Greatest health menace at the key U.S. military base of Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians is a swarming, half-million-odd rat population that has battened for years past in the mean, garbage-strewn alleys of Unalaska village...
Into Dutch Harbor, in ships from Seattle, poured men looking for the good money being paid labor. They worked until the glacial rains soaked into their livers, then fled south again. Standing labor report from Unalaska Island: one crew going, one crew working but not liking it, one crew coming. They kept arriving, unprepared, ignorant of the rigors they had to face. Army & Navy men stayed because they...
Under these conditions in Yakutat, Kodiak, Sitka, Anchorage, from Annette out along Alaska's trunklike Aleutian Islands to Dutch Harbor in Unalaska, men were desperately at work excavating, blasting rock, building a string of fortifications. When the big job was done, the U.S. would have a 2,000-mile flagstone path toward Asia and a natural rampart bristling with man-made ramparts...