Word: yukon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small, tasty shrimps of southeastern Alaska, the herring and shellfish industries are underdeveloped. Yukon mink bring the highest world prices, but could have production expanded 100 times without sinking the world price. Petroleum resources have not even been tapped...
...unfolds the plight of an "A" student who falls into the toils of a buxom Dorchester lass. To be blunt, and the play is, he has to marry her. To his rescue comes Uncle Joe Whipple, erstwhile Beacon Hill Harvardian who has spent his post-college life in the Yukon. Uncle Joe lays $50,000 in gold on the line if young Whipple gets kicked out and marries Dorchester's Polly Dugan. Whip tries hard, aided by his room-mates. But something always comes up to change the whole aspect of his misdemeanors...
...this phonograph records shattered over heads, beer cans galore, a bottle of potent Yukon "Cutchaw," and you have, as "The Puritan's Progress" had, material for any number of Harvard House plays. It is profane, original, and as modern as the Daily Record, in whose columns it might well run as a serial story. Which is just about what a good House play ought...
Bradford Washburn will speak on "Winter Exploration in the Yukon" tonight under the sponsorship of Edward W. Quinn for the Dowse Institute...
...Mayo Landing, Canada, in Yukon Territory, thermometers reached 58° below zero. Minot, N. Dak. and Bemidji, Minn, experienced 32° below. Iowa, Illinois and the Lake States went under snow blankets as frigid air masses rolled south and east to the Atlantic...