Word: chilkoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...School. The student literary journal, Aegis, published his Bonin Islands story, and its stay-at-home readers must have been awed by his breezy voice of experience ("Ah! Life was life then!"). In short order, Student London took off for the Klondike and packed 8,000 Ibs. across the Chilkoot Pass. This weight included the works of Darwin, Spencer, Marx and Milton...
Alcoa's plan is to dam the Yukon River deep in Yukon Territory, thus raise the level of several lakes near the border. Alcoa would then tunnel 21 miles through mountains and under the fabled Chilkoot Pass to bring the water down through penstocks to the turbines. The generators would be in the rock itself, protected from the weather and enemy bombs. The power would be cheap enough (probably 2? per Ib. of aluminum v. 4$ at Alcoa's most recent U.S. facilities) to offset the cost of transporting alumina all the way north and finished aluminum...