Word: highway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With small ceremony, the U.S. Army Engineers celebrated completion of the biggest job in their blueprints since the Panama Canal. Last week the last link in the Akan Highway was made ready for traffic. "The Road" was finally open: a two-way military highway which is the first all-year land connection of Alaska to Canada...
When the speeches flowered at the formal dedication last November, The Road was hardly more than a slot in the trees. But while it was still a rough scratch on the earth the Alcan Highway somehow became a smooth fact in the pub lic mind. Travel-starved citizens dreamed of the day when they, too, might wheel the family sedan through Dawson Creek and Whitehorse, past Kluane Lake and Tanana (pronounced Ta´na naw) Crossing...
While the Alcan is officially "The Alaska Highway," it carries only war traffic. It was built, not for the vacation trade, but to service and supply the chain of airports strung along the air route which it follows...
...with its link to Haines. From tidewater on the Inside Passage at Haines (site of Chilkoot Barracks, longtime Army post) the cutoff climbs through Chilkat Pass, lower and easier than famed Chilkoot Pass of gold-rush days. Scenically the route is as spectacular as the well-advertised Banff-Jasper Highway in the Canadian Rockies...
...Transportation Corps Officer Candidate School is devoted largely to instruction in rail, water, and highway operations. In addition to technical instruction in transportation subjects great stress is placed upon military tactics and the development of qualities of leadership in handling troops...