Word: yukon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swampy flats north of the Yukon River the ground becomes iron-hard, the lakes glass-smooth. The heaviest airplanes can land on the ice. Hard on men and machines are the temperatures. Toward Point Barrow the thermometer sometimes falls to 75° F. below zero. Before Finland and the German invasion of Norway, many military experts would have said no army could operate there. Now they are not so sure...
Died. Sam McGee, oldtime Yukon sourdough and inspiration for Poet Robert William Service's rugged North-Country ballad, The Cremation of Sam McGee; in Beiseker, Alberta. Oldster McGee returned to the Yukon two years ago, found his old two-room shack turned into a tearoom emblazoned with a macabre invitation: "Have a cup of tea with the ghost of Sam McGee...
...harried British troops scurried back across the Channel last week, leaving the Nazis in sight of the chalk cliffs of Dover, Britons all over the far-flung Empire looked anxiously to their arms. No exceptions, Canadians from the Yukon to the St. Lawrence eyed their slow-moving war-expansion program askance, clamored vociferously for action, still more action...