Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exploration work in the wilderness everything had to be flown in, from beef to bulldozers. At first, air freight cost Hollinger 73? a pound. By last April Jules Timmins had his own airlift operating from Seven Islands to the airstrip at Knob Lake. This season it carried 750 tons, at an average cost of 7? a pound...
...summers--1925 and 1926--he directed the Harvard Engineering camp at Squam Lake...
...next night, standing on the great tiered rostrum of the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, he delivered the most thoughtful and most specific speech of his campaign. Its basic outline had been checked by telephone with Senator Arthur Vandenberg. It had been corrected and updated after last-minute teletype reports from John Foster Dulles in Paris. The result was a detailed reassurance that U.S. foreign policy has become a national, and not a party issue...
...plowing contest," said ex-Plowboy Harry Truman, "and there were just about ten acres of people in front of the stand where I spoke ... I went to Denver and there were 100,000 people . . . went on down the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and over to Salt Lake City...
...story doesn't greatly matter: a bluffing old Confederate veteran (capably hammed by Roland Culver) is deceived into fronting for an itinerant salesman (Patric Knowles) of wildcat oil shares. The wildcat is also a tomcat, and Veronica Lake, the prettiest of the colonel's three daughters, falls for him. The second daughter (Oklahoma's Mary Hatcher) sings a good deal, and the youngest (Mona Freeman) is on hand with wisecracks. There is also a cook (Pearl Bailey), and a comic swain (Billy De Wolfe...