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...Kodiak, Alaska...
Self-Made Russian. Shelekhov planted his settlement on Kodiak Island-in the lee of the peninsula that breaks into the bits and pieces of the Aleutians. To manage his new colony Shelekhov chose middle-aged Merchant Aleksandr Andrevich Baranov. Baranov was that rarest of Russians, a self-made man. He began as a small trader, worked his way to ownership of a Siberian glass factory. Baranov is the hero of Author Chevigny's impressive history of young Alaska...
...censorship in which Alaska was muffled last week one ray of sunshine peeped: a letter from Major Bill Adams, onetime West Coast radioman. Printed in Broadcasting the letter told of a little "one-lung outfit," KODK, whose tiny transmitter made a welcome whistle in lonely Fort Greely on Kodiak Island...
...months ago this little broadcasting outfit, which the men now call "the greatest thing ever to hit Fort Greely" was a gleam in Major Adams' eye. By December, transmitter, turntable, mikes, etc. (purchased with money from a lottery) arrived on Kodiak Island. By January the station was on the air with what the Army calls "horse-blankets" (discs), strictly sweet music for the starved listeners. Soon Kodiakers were filing into the studio with their guitars, mandolins, fiddles, anxious to help...
...Bank of Kodiak boasted a 314% increase in deposits in nine months. Kodiak's weekly newspaper advertised six transfer companies, six cab companies, six restaurants, nine liquor stores and bars, one laundry. How long the boom would last no one would predict. But in Kodiak, only 600 miles from the Arctic Circle, Coca-Cola hopefully erected a bottling works...