Word: northwesterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time, travel-hungry Canadians and Americans could see what one of the world's famous wartime roads looked like in peacetime dress (see cut). In new pictures released by the Canadian Government, the Alaska Highway, knifing straight through scenic northwest Canada, looked fine...
...reporters knew that the General had more on his mind than fishing. As chief of the Canadian Army's Western Command, embracing British Columbia, Alberta, the Yukon and Northwest Territories, he has stated bluntly that he considers the area "vulnerable." Among its military assets: the deteriorating Canol pipeline, 120 bridges on the highway between Dawson Creek and Whitehorse, a lot of abandoned Army camps, at least four big airports, a latticework of communications. Liabilities: long winter nights, frozen lakes and ground inviting airborne invasion. Perhaps a quick run over the area might uncover some fresh viewpoints on defense...
...when his regiment camped near the border. He had an illustrator's eye for detail which rivaled his contemporaries, Currier & Ives. The other big man of his day was Paul Kane, who may have been the real counterpart of "Langdon Towne," the painter-hero in Kenneth Roberts' Northwest Passage. To paint wilderness Indians as they really were, he accompanied a Hudson's Bay Company "fur brigade" on a three-year trek by snowshoe and canoe, came back with sketches for a lifetime of painting...
...kind of heat that opens cotton bolls and splits pomegranates hung over Minden, La. (pop. 6,677) in the backwoods 265 miles northwest of New Orleans. Flies buzzed behind drawn curtains. People walked slowly, kept to the shade of the great spreading oaks beneath which Edmund Kirby-Smith's rebel troops had marched in '64. It was a quiet week. There was a little gossip about a Negro named John Johnson, who had been lynched; but nothing the folks in Minden felt was really worth talking about...
...Indians would vote at places like Davis Inlet and Northwest River. There, in good seasons, they barter their prized Labrador mink and fox pelts; in bad seasons, pick up their Government dole. Only the Indians wage a battle for existence in the virtually unmapped, unknown interior, and they are losing. Where rigor and hardship have failed to decimate them, intermarriage and the ills brought by the white man have succeeded...