Word: goerz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...route as to supply Alaska. There were signs last week that the U.S. was preparing to assure Alaskan supplies by constructing a 1,440-mile railroad from mid-British Columbia to Fairbanks, perhaps to Nome. Since last spring the route has been quietly surveyed under U.S. Engineer Colonel Peter Goerz. A Seattle steel company has bought up the rails from a half-dozen defunct railroads. Washington has discussed the route with Ottawa, and has considered buying a decrepit, 350-mile Canadian railway (between Vancouver and Prince George-although it does not quite reach either) which would fit into...