Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brown said his company had explored the whole Lynn Lake area. The drills had bitten into three separate ore bodies estimated to total up to 5,000,000 tons. That was all Canadians wanted to know...
...last week, prospectors were racing into the Lynn Lake area by bush plane. Flyers who circled Lynn Lake saw so many snowshoe tracks on the ground they looked like chicken runs. Around the lake a busy settlement had sprung up. Log cabins and prefabricated houses had been hauled north on sleighs. Tractor trains clanked in from Sherridon carrying hundreds of tons of supplies at a time. (On the return trip they carried back ore for extraction at a pilot plant set up in Sherridon.) There was talk of laying a spur railroad line from Sherridon north to Lynn Lake...
Oldtimer Charles Hansen, a prospector since 1923, had seen nothing like it since the original Red Lake Rush. The only trouble was that most of the claim-stakers were from the East or B.C., he said. "Manitobans seem to be missing the boat...
...California work camp after an auto accident in which he killed two people, lost his plea for parole (he said he had pyorrhea and a bum knee), went back to tending sheep. When fire broke out in the radio of her husband's private plane, Cinemadventuress Veronica Lake smothered it with her mink coat, was forced to appear in furs borrowed from a friend. Frank Sinatra was bedded in Acapulco, Mexico, with intestinal trouble and a high fever. Crooner Dick Haymes went to bed for a week with sinus trouble. Trombonist Jack Teagarden, whose theme song...
...Salt Lake City Choir (Sun. 11:30 a.m., CBS). Welsh airs...