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...shares in his portfolio. Once consulting engineer for Utah Copper, he has been affiliated with the Guggenheim Brothers and John Hays Hammond. In 1911 he was associated with Herbert Clark Hoover in the successful flotation of unsuccessful Granville Mining Co., formed in London to acquire Yukon placer claims. Two years ago his mining work in Jugoslavia secured him the Grand Cordon of the Order of St. Sava. A buckaroo in business, his chief hobby is the collection of old illuminated manuscripts...
...first formal appearance in Fairbanks. But many an oldtimer there remembers how, aged 7, Bob would sing the only song he knew, "In The Good Old Summer Time," while other children passed a fur hat among the miners. The Crawford family had migrated from Dawson, Canada, down the Yukon and up the Tanana River, looking for gold. They were among Fairbanks' first settlers. Bob Crawford first studied music on a mail order fiddle, with a French exile named Vic Durand. His first song, "My Northland," has been adopted by Alaskans as an unofficial anthem...
...airmail contracts but "star routes"* won from the dogsled contractors by underbidding. The contractor is required only to carry the mail, receives no extra compensation for flying it. (A 3? stamp on a letter is sufficient.) Thus, on Alaskan Airways' eight "star" routes between the Seward Peninsula, the Yukon and above the Arctic Circle, a pilot must land at every prospector's shack where a letter is to be delivered, or where a signal is displayed that a letter is to be picked up. On the 200-mi. route between Tanana and Ruby, planes make as many...
...Yukon Club. Patronage of Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., with 15,670 stores, is prized by companies supplying it. Its competition is feared by all other merchants of food, especially National Association of Retail Grocers. Last week the ice cream industry heard with alarm that A. & P. is introducing a line of ice cream in about 75% of its New York and Philadelphia stores as an experiment. The ice cream will be sold as A. & P's own brand under the name Yukon Club. In addition several novelties made by Eskimo Pie Corp. (controlled by U. S. Foil Corp.) will...
White-haired Captain George Black, Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, looked out of his office window on Parliament Hill and saw some rabbits gnawing the tender bark of young evergreens recently planted. Captain Black is a man of action. He went into the Yukon in the gold rush of 1898, led a company of sourdoughs to France in the War, has represented the north country in the House since 1921. His constituency embraces 207,000 sq. mi., has 4,000 residents. Two of his ribs were broken when he rolled down a mountainside in the Rockies under...