Word: yukon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yukon Club. Patronage of Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., with 15,670 stores, is prized by companies supplying it. Its competition is feared by all other merchants of food, especially National Association of Retail Grocers. Last week the ice cream industry heard with alarm that A. & P. is introducing a line of ice cream in about 75% of its New York and Philadelphia stores as an experiment. The ice cream will be sold as A. & P's own brand under the name Yukon Club. In addition several novelties made by Eskimo Pie Corp. (controlled by U. S. Foil Corp.) will...
White-haired Captain George Black, Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, looked out of his office window on Parliament Hill and saw some rabbits gnawing the tender bark of young evergreens recently planted. Captain Black is a man of action. He went into the Yukon in the gold rush of 1898, led a company of sourdoughs to France in the War, has represented the north country in the House since 1921. His constituency embraces 207,000 sq. mi., has 4,000 residents. Two of his ribs were broken when he rolled down a mountainside in the Rockies under...
...Alaskan Airways (pioneered by the late Carl Ben Eielson) is now also operating monthly passenger & express service between Anchorage and Bristol Bay (southern coast), weekly beI tween Anchorage and Bethel (southwest), weekly between Fairbanks and Nome, monthly between Fairbanks and Wiseman (above the Arctic Circle), weekly between Fairbanks, Fort Yukon & Dawson (Yukon). Compared to domestic U. S. airways, Alaskan fares are high ($200 between Fairbanks & Nome). But they are much cheaper than the only other means of winter travel-dogteam. The Fair-banks-Nome flight takes from 4½ to 6 hr. By dogteam the trip may take from...
...Hearstpapers, the hero of the trial, Sergeant John Leopold* of the Canadian Mounted Police (TIME, Nov. 16), signed a piece beginning: "This is the story of my betrayal to the Communist organization, and my exile to the Yukon, the Canadian Siberia. . . . Life there is one of continual hardship, fighting against blizzards and ice on unmarked trails, with nothing but the urge of duty, the code of the Mounted to carry a man through...
Seattle strongly favors municipal ownership of public utilities. It operates its own electric power and light plants, its own street railway system. For 20 years James Delmage Ross, onetime Yukon gold rusher, has served as Superintendent of City Light. A stout advocate of public ownership, he has fought many a gaudy fight with Stone & Webster's Puget Sound Power & Light Co. He has built up a political machine of his own; in fact no man or woman has within recent years been elected Mayor of Seattle without first promising the reappointment of Superintendent Ross. Frank Edwards, running...