Word: yukon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside the tiny white frame building a large sign says simply "Printing." That is the headquarters of the Whitehorse Star in Yukon Territory. Inside, another large sign pleads: "Don't Shoot! We're Doing Our Best!" The first sign went up six years ago because Editor Horace Edward Moore wanted business. The second went up last week because he had too much...
Last week Secretary Ickes, Petroleum Administrator, said unfinished Canol "is worth nothing and will have no value after the war," declared it "ought to be junked now." A WPB expert asserted that the 550-mile pipeline being laid between the oilfield and the refinery at Whitehorse in the Yukon will never function effectively because the mountainous wilderness it traverses is too cold...
...North Pole plaintively crying: "Kee-KeeKee-rist, but it's cold!" Membership emblem : a walrus tooth on a key chain. To qualify for membership (by invitation only), initiates must have accomplished any two of four feats: completed a mission above the Arctic Circle; ridden the White Pass & Yukon Railway from Whitehorse to Skagway; flown across the mountains from Whitehorse to Norman Wells on the Mackenzie; gone down the Yukon from Fort Yukon to the mouth...
...even military necessity has economic limits. Last week in Washington, as not long before in the Yukon's Whitehorse, the Truman Committee was blood-hounding the question whether this farthest north oilfield was not also farthest north in cost...
...Harry was a splendid character for a murder mystery. He was born in Sangerville, Maine in 1874. After graduation from Bowdoin College he worked two years in the New York office of a paper manufacturer. Then came news of the Yukon gold strike, and Oakes rushed off to prospect. He found no gold there. In the next 13 years of a persevering search he found none in Alaska, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, West Africa, the Belgian Congo, South Africa, Mexico, California or Nevada...