Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Point Barrow to Ketchikan-in mining camps, beauty parlors, banks, offices, hangars, in remote villages with names like Tolstoi, Meehan, Kanatak and Nugget-visitors and Alaskans felt a mounting fever. For, after a short winter letdown, the boom was back with the summer...
Despite last winter's slump, a prime lower Yukon mink still brought $35, a prime beaver blanket...
...weather link (470 miles) between Seward on the coast and Fairbanks in the interior, is being completely reconstructed. By 1952 its roadbed will be rebuilt, its rails and ancient rolling stock will be replaced, its narrow cuts (in which 106 moose had fatal head-on collisions with locomotives last winter) will be widened, its capacity for freight and passengers increased eight to ten times...
...Texas farmers began threshing the greatest winter wheat crop in U.S. history this week, the news for the world's hungry was good. Best estimates place the crop at 1.3 billion bushels, more than double any average prewar year. But the chances of starting the wheat on its way promptly are worse than ever. Fewer boxcars are available than in the worst war years. In the Texas Panhandle, farmers are already scouting around for circus tents to cover the grain on the ground until the railroads can move it. As the harvesters move north in the next month...
...have been forced to retire more than 5,000 worn-out cars. Production of enough cars to alleviate the shortage-10,000 a month-will probably not be reached until September. ODT Director J. Monroe Johnson, who had blamed the carmakers' low production on lack of steel last winter (TIME, Feb. 24) now blames the car-builders. (The car-builders still blame the steel shortage.) All the wheat farmers can do is hope for dry weather. If they are lucky not too much wheat will rot in the fields...