Word: sleds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a Dream. Distribution alone is a monumental problem. In the Eastern dialect, Inuktitut's circulation is limited to some 2,000 families, so widely strewn that the magazine must eventually be carried, over months, by Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Hudson's Bay traders, and dog sled; to reach Eskimos in Canada's Western north, Inuktitut will print a separate edition in the Roman characters familiar to that region. The magazine must go out in spring before the Arctic thaw, in summer after the river ice has melted, in fall before the freeze, and in winter before...
...with blasts from his is-inch-long toy cannon, set off a homemade bomb in the stone quarry, practiced his rifle marksmanship (he later became one of the Army's best) in the attic on rainy days with a .22. One winter, while crust riding downhill on his sled, he lost control, rammed head first into a stone wall. Unshaken, he would have gone calmly back up for another slide had not friends persuaded him to go to the doctor-who took six stitches to close the gap. Thenceforth...
...from North America over the top of the globe to the European area; and the trip under the edge of the Arctic icecap in 1931 was cool enough to chill spines in 1958. A converted U.S. Navy sub, Wilkins' Nautilus had portholes, searchlights, a tusklike bowsprit "feeler," and sled runners above the deck for sliding along the bellies of ice fields. Above the conning tower was a device for cutting through the ice, so that Sir Hubert could open the hatch at the Pole and pop out on top of the world. Leaky, her propellers serrated by chunks...
...Fred Seaton wowed; and where he did not wow, he wooed. "I want so desperately for this great state to get off to the right start," said Campaigner Seaton to as many of Alaska's nearly 50,000 voters as he could reach by plane, automobile and dog sled...
...hours. Dance-hall girls charged the miners $1 for one minute of dancing. and two miners actually had valets in their log huts. Fine dog teams, says Author Berton, were the Cadillacs of the time. "Nigger Jim" had one that was worth $2,500, and his sled had a built-in bar from which he treated his pals...