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Queen Beaver and Beans. At Anchor age, Bud got a job as a construction worker; in his spare time built the Queen Beaver, a 19-ft. canoe made of Sitka spruce and canvas. In July 1942 they shipped the Queen north to Fairbanks, loaded her with $93 worth of canned...
The swift interplay of forces began when the plane bringing Henry Wallace back from Chungking touched the runway at Fairbanks, Alaska. Roly-poly Samuel Rosenman, the President's speechwriter and confidant, who is now filling much of Harry Hopkins' old role, was already burning the long-distance wires...
The Rev. Stanislaus Orlemanski of Springfield, Mass. (TIME, May 8, 15) got home from Moscow last week. He arrived in the U.S. by plane via Alaska, where, finding himself short of funds, he borrowed $200 from a U.S. Army chaplain at Fairbanks. To photographers at Seattle he shouted: "You should...
"TANANA ICE BREAKS" gets blacker type in the Fairbanks News-Miner than a 2,000-plane raid on Germany. The Ice Pool is big business. Since it is a lottery and cannot use the mails, ballots are flown or mushed by dog team to remote settlements. Since February, as for...
From the refinery aviation fuel, gas for the trucks and bulldozers on the Alaskan road will be redistributed to Fairbanks in Alaska, Watson Lake in the Yukon and Skagway on the Alaskan panhandle over another 915-mile pipeline network.