Word: marvita
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...chunky little Marvita was on her strangest assignment. The 122-ton Newfoundland customs cutter, with election officials and ballot boxes aboard, was serving as a floating polling booth for the first election in Labrador's history...
Last week the Marvita chugged into tiny Hebron, most northern of bleak Labrador's mission-trading posts. Parka-clad voters padded aboard to mark ballots, picking one of the five candidates-a fisherman, a clergyman, an ex-Ranger, two wireless operators-as Labrador's lone representative at next month's national convention in St. John...
After eight hours at Hebron, the Marvita moved downshore to Nutak, then on to the Eskimo capital at Nain. Before the final count at Battle Harbour next month, she would stop at 37 Labrador hamlets hugging 800 miles of rugged coastline...
...Marvita has just about time enough to complete her job this season. Soon the Arctic ice would seal in the Labrador coast for the winter...
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