Word: muskeg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wreck was only 22 miles southwest of the great international airport at Gander. There, beset by fog, a Douglas Skymaster of the Belgian Sabena Lines had crashed one morning last week, New York-bound from Brussels. In the dense forest and quaking muskeg it might as well have been in the Congo. Swiftly and efficiently, one of the most complicated rescues in flying history got under...
Three days after the crash the first of the helicopters dropped down out of the sky. Even a helicopter could not land on the muskeg. While the helicopter hovered a Navy PBY dropped a load of planks. Then the helicopter fluttered down on an improvised platform. The survivors, in basket stretchers, were lashed to the undercarriage of the helicopters, flown to the PBYs waiting on. Wolf Lake. The PBYs flew them to the hospital in Gander...
...provides most of their homes, which are the talk of the sourdoughs: wooden houses perched on stilts above the muskeg, equipped with hot-&-cold running water, electric refrigerators, carpets, curtains, dishes. Right outside their doors is the Alaskan wilderness...
...Haines and the Alcan Highways surmounted the usual difficulties of wilderness construction, plus some special troubles native to the region. Muskeg and niggerhead swamps, hard to locate on the air maps, had to be skirted or heavily filled. North-country rivers looped their way all over the route...
Bull wheels turned again at Norman Wells. New wells came in. Tractors cat-walked along the timbered slopes and the boulder-flooded valleys. Trucks labeled "Canol" (for "Canadian Oil") labored up new-made roads. Men sweated their way through mosquitoes and muskeg; swatted themselves for warmth through the winter. By this year's end, Canol's builders hope to have the pipelines and the refinery in operation. But men who watched wondered in what good time, and at what cost...