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Canada used some of her Yankee-dollar surplus to reimburse the U.S. for all expenditures on airfields in the northwest, repay the full cost of a military telephone line from Edmonton to the Alaskan frontier. Some U.S. Army & Navy contracts in Canada will be canceled...
Army airmen thundering over the treacherous Alaskan terrain frequently hear the voices of women coming over...
About half the couples needed for Alaskan stations will be recruited right in the territory. For the rest CAA is combing the States. The inducements: good salaries (ranging around $6,000 a year per couple), rugged scenery, plenty of fresh air and adventure...
...provides most of their homes, which are the talk of the sourdoughs: wooden houses perched on stilts above the muskeg, equipped with hot-&-cold running water, electric refrigerators, carpets, curtains, dishes. Right outside their doors is the Alaskan wilderness...
Died. Charles Haskins Townsend, 84, famed zoologist and arctichthyologist, for 35 years director of the New York Aquarium; in Miami, Fla. He was credited with having saved three varieties of rare "critters" (his invariable term) from extinction: the giant Galapagos tortoise, the Alaskan reindeer, the fur seal...