Word: yukon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bustle touched the North's civilians too. A record number of government teams explored the geology of the northern islands, world's biggest archipelago after the East Indies. In the Northwest Territories, construction crews hammered together prefabricated parts for new schools and hospitals; and in the Yukon and along the Mackenzie River, the biggest prospecting rush since '98 was in full swing, this time with oil as the prize. So many oil-prospecting crews were buzzing about in their helicopters that one oldtimer at Fort Good Hope (N.W.T.) grouched...
...name of geography he exposed the female breast, printed a 1903 study of two tawny Tagbanua belles eclipsed only to the waist by a stand of Philippine rice. Such displays became Geographic fixtures. He expanded geographical boundaries to embrace first-person travelogues from Tahiti, Siberia and the Yukon, kite construction (they were Bell's kites), the sex life of the aborigines, and skin tattoos. In 1905 he came up to a deadline with an eleven-page hole, filled all eleven pages with pictures of Tibet-the first extensive use of photographs by any magazine. The reader response to this...
...will of English-born Doggerelist Robert W. Service, dead at 85 last year in Monte Carlo, disclosed last week that in succumbing to The Spell of the Yukon (published in 1907), Service successfully mined a heap of gold with his pen. His net estate...
...impending natural disaster, but the Alaskan equivalent of the Irish Sweepstakes: the yearly pool on when the ice would break up in the Tanana River at the little town of Nenana, southwest of Fairbanks. This year hopefuls all over the 49th state and Canada's Yukon Territory (no tickets are sold to "outsiders") bought 170,000 tickets at $1 apiece for a chance to guess the exact day, hour and minute of the breakup. The exact minute is determined by an apparatus of Rube Goldberg complexity: the churning ice pushes against a tall pole stuck into the frozen river...
Medical Student Spock was one of thousands of young men who have invaded Canada's bush country in the last 60 years as faculty members of a unique institution called Frontier College. Its campus stretches 3,000 miles from the Yukon to Labrador; its most avid students are immigrant laborers who hunger to learn English in order to become Canadian citizens. Last week the Toronto-based school dispatched the first of this summer's 75 instructors-most of them greenhorn college students-to take grueling jobs in remote mines, lumber camps, construction and railroad gangs. "They arrive...