Word: barrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...memory of one of Liu's raids. In 16 days of occupation the Communists milked the area: 20,000 bags of rice, 6,000 bolts of cloth, 800 drums of kerosene, piles of padded winter garments, all paid for in I.O.U.s marked 'Democratic Hsien Government.' Impressed barrow-men and mule carts lugged the loot into the hills. Wherever young men were found, they were carried off as 'recruits...
From Point Barrow to Ketchikan-in mining camps, beauty parlors, banks, offices, hangars, in remote villages with names like Tolstoi, Meehan, Kanatak and Nugget-visitors and Alaskans felt a mounting fever. For, after a short winter letdown, the boom was back with the summer...
...vast wastes above the Arctic Circle, where much of the world's weather is generated, Canada has only two weather stations equipped for long-range forecasting and the U.S. has only three (at Thule in Greenland, at Barrow and Kotzebue, in Alaska). To achieve a closer study and better forecasting, Canada and the U.S. joined last week in a plan for more observation posts...
Huge, husky (242 Ibs., 6 ft. 3 in.) Cap Krug looked like an Alaskan himself when he got into a wool shirt. He flew across the Arctic Circle to Point Barrow, ate whale meat, and walked through a litter of walrus heads to duck into native shacks. He surprised his guides by landing two-foot rainbow trout in the Kenai River. He also listened-and listened. Everywhere he went-Fairbanks, Point Barrow, Anchorage, Seward, Juneau, Ketchikan, Sitka, Metla Katla-Alaskans who had always wanted to tell the Secretary of the Interior what they thought of the Government proceeded...
Interior Secretary Julius A. ("Cap") Krug, on a flying tour of Alaska, was banqueted with a difference when he dropped in on little Barrow, the continent's farthest-north town. Eskimos dined him in the schoolhouse. Spécialites de maison: barbecued caribou, seal cheek, roast walrus heart, fried seal liver, candied whale meat...