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With the comfortable feeling that the World Cruise was sailing safely on its way, newspapers and public began to lose interest in the great adventure. But the feeling of security was false. From Sitka, Alaska, to Seward, Alaska, the 610 miles of coast-wide flight proved highly dangerous. Ideal weather at the start was followed by a blinding snow- storm, and a collision just avoided by the aviators, who were flying "close" to maintain contact...
...William Seward Mariner '27 of East-hampton has been appointed to manage the team, it was announced last night by Manager R. P. Cromwell '25 of the University team...
Financiers: George F. Baker, Jr., August Belmont, Thomas W. Lamont, Dwight W. Morrow, E. R. Stettinius, Willis H. Booth, Seymour L. Cromwell, Otto H. Kahn, Fred I. Kent, Seward Prosser, Frank A. Vanderlip, Felix M. Warburg, Paul M. Warburg...
Following these events, Secretary Wallace and Speaker Gillett took autos to follow the original plan of the party by traveling over the Richardson Trail and taking the Copper River Railroad to Cordova. Secretaries Work and Hoover took train back to Anchorage and later to Seward to hold hearings on the complaints and proposals of Alaskans. The President and Mrs. Harding followed the two latter in a more leisurely fashion...
ALASKA: The Alaska Railroad, built by the Government at a cost of $56,000,000, is within a few weeks of completion. It is 467 miles long, extending from Seward, on Resurrection Bay, to Fairbanks, on the Tanana River, tapping the valuable coal and mineral resources of the Territory. Annual revenues from the road already are in excess...