Word: ox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around the diggings grew up the bustling company town of Anyox (pronounced Annie-ox) with an annual payroll of $1,500,000, a population of 2,500. There were three churches, a two-story wooden hotel, a nine-hole golf course on a slag fill in Granby Bay. But mounting costs shut down the mine in 1935, and Anyox shut up shop, too. Only a few watchmen remained. When lightning in 1942 fired the "tinder-dry slopes behind Anyox and roared down on the deserted town, most of its weathered buildings went up in flames...
...Lake Michigan to mix concrete in so that he could build the Rocky Mountains. In the winter of the Blue Snow, when the Pacific Ocean was frozen clean over, he supplied the country with the standard grade of white snow hauled from China by Babe, his blue ox. But Paul was a lumberman at heart. One day while he was combing his beard with a pine tree, he invented mass production in the logging business...
...Brigadier R. O. G. Morton, Canadian Army commander of the military district, told them: "The ground you will cover is historic. Brave men have given their lives there for the advancement of the race." He finished with a command: "To post!" The Canadian Army's "Operation Musk-Ox" was under...
Before the expedition reached Edmonton some time next May, the men of Musk-Ox would have traveled 800 airline miles (1,150 route miles) north to Cambridge Bay, some 600 more southwest to Fort Norman on the mighty Mackenzie River, and 900 airline miles south in the Mackenzie Valley. It would be comparable to a trip from Tallahassee to Chicago to central Nebraska to Corpus Christi. The region has been visited so infrequently by man that close-up maps of it are liberally sprinkled with such vague comments as "flat country" and "rolling plains with numerous lakes...
Operation Musk-Ox had set out to learn about this unknown country. The mechanized explorers of Musk-Ox would study the geology, meteorology and topography of the Dominion's upper reaches, the performance of snowmobiles (originally designed for the Allied invasion of Norway but never used), the suitability of new-type winter clothing and winter shelters. They would test the feasibility of supplying ground forces by air under Arctic conditions...