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...Then came the first Engineer troops. Their job was to drag supplies and equipment up the line to road depots before the thaw. On March 9, they tumbled off the train at dingy Dawson Creek station, staked stiff canvas tents under the northern lights. "Jeez, it was so cold," a Bronx private remarked, "that every time we had hot stew for chow, the goddam stuff froze before we could eat." Behind the troops came trucks, road machinery, supplies, gas, diesel fuel and planks from torn-down CCC camps...
...April the effort seemed not enough. A sudden thaw set the river ice groaning and cracking like pistol shots. Trucks crossed only in the middle hours of the night. Came a late hard freeze and the last truck was over. Weary drivers looked at the big Peace River and grunted: "Go ahead and bust wide open, you old bastard, we've licked you." The stuff to build the road was through to Fort St. John, to Fort Nelson. But the road was still to be built...
Married. Consuelo Morgan Thaw, 40, sister of Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt (mother of Gloria), of Lady Furness, of Harry Hays Morgan Jr.; and Alfons Beaumont Landa, 44, law partner of Joseph E. Davies; she for the third time, he for the second; in Beverly Hills...
...that area, and as far south as Orel, below Moscow, the ground remained fairly hard, the weather brisk. Beyond, toward the Black Sea, the thaw had set in and the two armies fought in bottomless, gluey...
...been there since last September, and he had plenty of reason to regret the dashing autumn drive of his army. For there was no doubt that Russia was crimping him tighter & tighter. He needed the spring as badly as any man on the front. And, above Moscow, the thaw was still six weeks away...