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What's the matter with Alaska
Article argues Alaska suffers from excessive and fragmented federal control. It notes vast resources, rising population, and declining commerce while detailing the many departments involved and proposed shifts to vest authority in a single head, the President, to speed development. It highlights advised coordination and existing bottlenecks in land, fisheries, roads, and shipping under Washington rule.
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John Dickinson Sherman
Alaska
Kansas
Harding
Norway
Sweden
Finland
England
Scotland
Ireland
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Ilinois
Iowa
Missouri
Dakotas
Arkansas
Yukon
Canada
Alaskan Peninsula
Point Barrow
Arctic Circle
United States
Ide
Albert B. Fatt
Interior
Interior Department
Gnd
Warding
Secretary of the Interior
Congress
Curry
Alaska Development Board
Cummins
War, Agriculture and Commerce
Alaska Timberia
Washington
Philadelphia
Seward
Fairbanks
Alaskan Engineering Commission
General Land Office
Mongass
Chugach
Forest Service
Agricultural Department
National Forests
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Bureau of
Pribllof Islands
Departments of Agriculture and Commerce
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Department of the Treasury
Coast Guard
War Department
Alagia
Post Office Department
Board of Yond Commissioners
Aldaka
Secretary of War
Alaskan Advisory Committee
Alfred H. Brooka
H. Y. Saint
Shipping Board
Otto Praeger
DW. A. Sherman
Payne
Post Ofice
Federsl
California
Interstate Commerce Commission
Fall