Word: yukon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their arctic flying suits, the British-Canadian crew of the converted Lancaster bomber looked like men from Mars. Every available inch of their 37-ton, four-engine plane, the Aries,* was filled with scientific equipment, much of it secret. When they left Whitehorse in the Yukon one day last week and landed 20 hours later at Shrewsbury, England, on the last lap of a two-week tour of Arctic exploration, they had accomplished more than many an explorer of a generation ago did in a lifetime. They had made three trips into the Arctic, found the present accurate location...
...addition to flying TIME south from Honolulu we have also just launched a new Northern Air Express Edition to fly TIME north from Seattle to Alaska-to get copies to subscribers in that territory and across the border in Canada's Yukon by Friday or Saturday, a week to ten days earlier than ever before...
Belle of the Yukon (International-RKO) is the first clean miss by last year's most professional new cinema outfit. International Pictures (Casanova Brown, Woman at the Window). As a musicomic vehicle for Gypsy Rose Lee, it is hampered not only by its own slowfootedness but by the fact that Miss Lee, America's most literate ecdysiast, has learned to silver-plate her sex with such cultivated English that she suggests Lady Windermere's Fan Dance...
...Yukon," the Helmericks conclude...
Thirty years ago its river towns teemed with activity. "Today the trails are over grown, the roadhouses are closed, and the telephone wires down. . . . The men along the Yukon completely lack worldly ambition...