Word: igloos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pacific Huts, Inc. sounds like a strange sort of corporation. It is even stranger than it sounds. Less than a year ago it was not even a name; now its 500 Seattle employes turn out one prefabricated wooden igloo every 15 minutes for U.S. troops in Alaska, and its gross volume runs up to $6,000,000 a year. The 4½-ton Pacific huts are rainproof, stormproof, termite-proof, fungus-proof, even proof against cold...
Leverett, home of the "Bunnies," contains every conceivable type of human. It alone has a House Glee Club, but the fact is hardly indicative, inasmuch as one of its more active and energetic members of recent winters built an igloo in the court...
Here you will see a Pekinese pagoda made of fresh and crackly peanut brittle -there a snow-white marshmallow igloo -there a toothsome pink nougat in the Florentine manner, rich and delicious with embedded nuts. Yonder rears a clean pocket-size replica of heraldic Warwick Castle-yonder drowses a nausey old nance. . . . And there a hot little hacienda, a regular enchilada conqueso with a roof made of rich red tomato sauce, barely lifts her long-lashed lavender shades on the soul of old Spanish days...
Since the beginning of winter, two neighboring families had been wrangling over the second coming of Christ. One family firmly believed He would soon return to earth. All through the winter they kept their igloo ready for Him, kept their seal spears sharpened, their fishing nets mended. Their larder was always stocked with meat and skins...
...will probably tell umeealik, the boss man, all about it. If the inspector decides to bring the guilty family down to Moose Factory on James Bay for trial that will be fine, they will get a ride in an airplane and a chance to see a whole street of "igloo-pak," the white men's houses...