Word: mukluk
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...stagnant, the market value of energy firms is weak and some companies are selling for less than the worth of their assets. At the same time, oil executives are discovering that it is often cheaper to buy new reserves than to explore for them. In Alaska's promising Mukluk field, for instance, major oil companies have put an estimated $1.7 billion into exploration, but have so far turned up only a $140 million dry hole...
...clambered up the shining aluminum sides of their 4½-ton vehicles and dropped through topside hatches into 6 ft.-by-5 ft. cabins. Young (33), British-born Lieut. Colonel Patrick Douglas Baird, 6 ft. 7 in. from the peak of his blue parka to the soles of his mukluk boots, stood waist-high and erect in the hatch of the No. 1 "snow" as it moved ponderously out of line, swung left, headed down the street. The other vehicles, each tugging two supply-laden sleds in tandem, followed. The base's siren whined farewell...
Tough as a mukluk (fur boot) was Sourdough Edwin A. Robertson, a Maine-born man who had lived most of his 84 years in Yukon country. Fortnight ago, Sourdough Robertson left his lonely cabin on Seventymile River, mushed for Eagle to lay in supplies. The air was deadly cold; spicules of ice rimed the oldtimer's whiskers. Warily he plodded. He knew his Yukon, knew that while the running creeks freeze solid early, little springs that never freeze bubble under the snow all winter; that to crash through an ice-skin meant wet feet that would freeze almost instantly...
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