Word: lomen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blueberries, ground willow-the herds eventually increased to over a million. Then they began to dwindle. Wolves, which developed a finicky taste for reindeer tongues, took a heavy toll. Some reindeer wandered off to join the wild caribou. White herders had encroached on the field. One big firm, the Lomen brothers, built slaughterhouses and railway loading platforms, began shipping choice reindeer steaks and reindeer dog food to the States. Discouraged by this high-powered competition, the Eskimos began to lose much of their interest in herding reindeer...
...little brown men. The census and buying job was turned over to big, beaming, bespectacled Charles Gilbert Burdick, a Forest Service inspector in Juneau. Last December Burdick, an assistant and a pilot started out in an airplane, equipped with skis for landing, covered 20,000 miles. The Lomen brothers, who had found the reindeer industry no gold mine, were glad to sell out. On the few others who refused, Burdick slapped condemnation proceedings. He ingratiated himself with the Eskimos by dealing out not only reindeer but great quantities of bubble gum. The Government will collect the herds he purchased...