Word: skis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sleds are carried on by the "cat skinners" who drive the caterpillar trains (tractors and sleds) which bring supplies across the snow from Edmonton. Passenger service to & from Yellowknife, as well as to outlying claims, is furnished by Canadian Pacific Airlines and by bush pilots in small planes like ski-or pontoon-equipped Noorduyn Norsemen...
...official ration is 1,250 calories a day, looked well-fed and prosperous. Many a middle-class woman looked as though she had just stepped out of "Lanz of Salzburg's" Fifth Ave. window. Of 50 women on Innsbruck's main street, 38 were wearing solid leather ski boots, 41 multi-colored sweaters, 43 stockings as well as ski socks...
Some of the smaller, more specialized, activities, such as the Outing Club, the Ski Club, the Mountaineering Club, and the Yacht Club had bumpy going during the dark ages, but all of them are currently being revived by the influx of returning veteran members. The Debate Council never missed the Yale and Princeton triangular debates, and awarded the Coolidge prize throughout hostilities...
...search nipped the repatriates' careful plans to smuggle home valuables in addition to funds which they had been ordered to turn over to Allied authorities when Japan surrendered. In the knee patches of a child's ski suit, inspectors found a wad of large-denomination U.S. bills. A woman's sewing kit concealed three whopping diamonds. A three-year-old's belt bulged with 21 wristwatches. Shoe heels and toothpaste tubes disgorged a torrent of foreign currency and jewelry...
Bell's stock list for the Nascopie this year, radioed out of the north two months ago, occupies four closely typed long sheets. Items: tinted sun goggles, dolls, Florida water, girls' ski slacks, sewing machines, jew's-harps, thousands of pounds of plug tobacco, spruce poles for spear handles, blubber lamps...