Word: muskeg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dormitory improvised from the old stern-wheeler Delta King, which used to ply the tourist trade out of San Francisco. Alcan has elaborate plans for a model city (600 houses by next spring), with schools, a shopping center, streets and parkways where now there is only bush and muskeg. The plans are based on the confident expectation that the capital of the world's newest aluminum empire will some day be a city of 50,000 people...
...Wildlife Service field men caused a flurry of excitement by reporting that they had spotted two cranes in the Northwest Territories. But there was no sure evidence of nesting. Last month Professor William Rowan, the University of Alberta's expert zoologist, got word that in the muskeg wilderness of northern Alberta an old Indian guide had seen two big, white birds. Rowan interviewed the guide and from his precise description identified the birds as whooping cranes...
...brutal battleground. The temperature dipped as low as 52° below zero. Soldiers clad in nearly 25 Ibs. of special Arctic clothing, carrying another 34 Ibs. of special equipment, crawled through waist-deep snow, over hummocks of frozen muskeg. For hundreds of miles on every side stretched trackless pine forests and mountains. Said one corporal: "Anybody who'd invade this Godforsaken place is just plain damn wacky...