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Word: yukon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...probably done more to develop the mineral riches of Canada than any other man of his time. Last week the tall, spare 72-year-old president of Ventures Ltd. called a special meeting of shareholders in Toronto to announce his biggest venture: a hydroelectric power development in the vast Yukon Territory, which may cost up to $2 billion and develop as much as 5,000,000 h.p., to run a great new metallurgical development in the Canadian Northwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Metal Empire | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

Alcoa's plan is to dam the Yukon River deep in Yukon Territory, thus raise the level of several lakes near the border. Alcoa would then tunnel 21 miles through mountains and under the fabled Chilkoot Pass to bring the water down through penstocks to the turbines. The generators would be in the rock itself, protected from the weather and enemy bombs. The power would be cheap enough (probably 2? per Ib. of aluminum v. 4$ at Alcoa's most recent U.S. facilities) to offset the cost of transporting alumina all the way north and finished aluminum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALUMINUM: Alcoa in Alaska | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

...four-fifths in Canada. But the Canadian North is no longer a land fit only for Indians, Eskimos and a few hardy white men. Lots of women like Mrs. Mackenzie, and lots of children have moved into the North in recent years. The schools in Whitehorse, in the Yukon, now have 364 children, equal to half the total population of the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Pioneers Wanted | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

...Yukon a far broader boom than the Klondike gold rush. The new road to Hay River in the Northwest Territories is an all-weather highway over which truckloads of fresh and frozen trout and whitefish from Great Slave Lake are driven , daily on their way to Chicago and New York, as part of a $2,500,000 fishing industry. Gold at Dawson and Yellowknife, uranium at Port Radium, base metals at Mayo have all built up thriving settlements. Great lead-zinc-silver deposits, lately found at Pine Point, less than 60 miles from the Hay River road, may bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Pioneers Wanted | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

...Even the new peak is expected to double after next June, when the connecting Hart Highway from the West Coast is completed. That will cut off a 900-mile detour and give traffic from as far south as San Diego, Calif, direct access to the Yukon and Alaska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Out of the Ashcan | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

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