Word: yukon
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...reported that "Fifth Avenue was as white and vacant as the frozen Yukon...
...York's blizzard, most of the Yukon was enjoying crisp, sunny weather, and an inch or two of dry powdered snow merely lent a seasonable Christmas decor to the streets of Whitehorse and Dawson. The town thermometer outside the famous Whitehorse Inn has rarely dropped below zero this winter...
Millions watched from windows as an eerie silence settled over the city. Traffic had stopped. Fifth Avenue was as white and vacant as the frozen Yukon, side streets were choked by thousands of stalled cabs, busses and trucks. Parkways were dotted with white mounds, each of which marked an abandoned automobile. Broadway's enormous electric signs made only a wan glow in the gloom. The Queen Mary, and other liners which had canceled sailings, hugged North River piers with their decks heaped with snow...
...last week the roar of ice-littered water had died away along most of Alaska's great rivers; the Tanana, the Yukon, the Porcupine, the Kuskokwim foamed ice-free through the hundreds of miles of evergreen wilderness. Even north of "the Circle" the ground had thawed. Hundreds of thousands of obliging salmon ran in Alaska's larch-green coastal waters. The Arctic ice pack would soon move sullenly offshore. The sun stayed in the skies at night, and green things burst into leaf and blossom with hothouse frenzy. Alaska's short, violent summer had begun...
Despite last winter's slump, a prime lower Yukon mink still brought $35, a prime beaver blanket...