Word: yukon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apple-cheeked youth 40 years ago, immaculate Thomas Duff Pattullo, now Premier of British Columbia, visited the hell-roaring gold-rush town of Dawson, Yukon as secretary to the Canadian Government's first. Yukon Commission. Tough miners and hot-spot sirens goggled at his white trousers, the first ever seen so far north. From that moment romantic Yukon wove a spell around...
Premier Pattullo. still immaculate but with a bigger girth, announced exultantly last week that British Columbia had closed a deal with the Dominion Government to take over Yukon Territory. As soon as British Columbia's Legislature signs on the dotted line, that province with an area of 573,331 sq. mi. will become, next to Quebec, the largest in Canada, more than ten times as big as New York State. From maps of Canada will disappear the colorful Yukon Territory, made famous by the discovery of gold in 1896 and the hairy-chested poems of Robert William Service...
...after a taste of starting in motion picture but Rex Beach, once an American titan of mass state telling like Hughes and Cobb, grows old on a ranch in Florida. When Rex Beach entered Rollins College in 1801, he signed himself Rex Ellen's tough rabble on the Yukon during the gold rush he had left Kent College of Law in Chicago to the Beach was a Rollins Kappa Alpha and had lead something about roughing it in the Rollins College football line...
Five men were appointed as instructors and tutors. They are: John D. Ferry of Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada in Biochemical Sciences; Paul M. A. Linebarger of Washington, D. C. in Government William D. Greene of Dublin, Ireland, in Greek and Latin; Hunter D. Farish, of Camden, Alabama, in History; and Donald O. Hebb, of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, in Psychology...
After a $440,600 profit in 1929, Yukon Gold tumbled into the red in 1930, piled up big deficits the next two years. Reason for the decline was the state of tin which,, like most of the world's leading metals, was caught out on a limb by Depression. In spite of cartel restrictions, output did not drop as fast as consumption from 1929 through 1931 and prices dropped from 45? to 24? per Ib. In 1932 production was pulled below consumption. Two years later prices were up to 52? per Ib., and the company showed a profit...