Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later. First step was to expand Norman Wells, an oil field 100 miles south of the Arctic in the great Canadian Northwest. To get Norman crude to a new refinery at Whitehorse, the Army stretched a four-inch surface pipeline 585 miles across the uncharted, dangerous Mackenzie mountain range. The final link was welded Feb. 18 near Macmillan, astride the Arctic continental divide. This week brass hats celebrated the completion of the refinery...
...rescue crew came in during the broadcast, having located the crew of a plane lost in the jungle. Many kinds of supplies are parachuted to lost crews: red blankets and junk jewelry for barter with the natives; playing cards and cribbage boards; Bibles, mess kits, boots, mountain rations, chewing gum, razor blades, ciga-rets, soap, canned beer...
...then, should TIME, on top of all this mountain of news, still feel that we need our own reporters in every newscenter of the world...
Once in a great while a biceps unflexes, and the result is a good act. W. C. Fields, looking worn-&-torn but as noble as Stone Mountain, macerates a boozy song around his cigar butt and puts on his achingly funny pool exhibition with warped cues. Donald O'Connor continues to prove himself a Mickey Rooney with some unspoiled, big-Adam's-apple charm to boot. Orson Welles, as a nice parody of a magician, saws Marlene Dietrich in two and watches her better half walk off with the act. Sophie Tucker, the Manassa Mauler of her field...
...North Carolina and Lowell House; James E. Connor, Jr. '44, of New Haven, Connecticut and Lowell House; Peter Frank '44, of Cambridge; Henry R. Krakauer '44, of Paterson, New Jersey and Adams House; Kurt Lessen, of Cawnpore, India and Lowell House; Cornelius J. Peck '44, V-12, of Iron Mountain, Michigan; and Alan T. Wenzell '44, NROTC, of New York City...