Word: yukon
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...frontier villagers along the Alaska Highway saw the U.S. Army throwing away stoves and mattresses, they got mad. Soon to the cities of southern Canada stories drifted back of equipment being destroyed by the ton, of great dumps of discarded goods rising in northern Alberta, British Columbia, and the Yukon...
From the refinery aviation fuel, gas for the trucks and bulldozers on the Alaskan road will be redistributed to Fairbanks in Alaska, Watson Lake in the Yukon and Skagway on the Alaskan panhandle over another 915-mile pipeline network...
...civilians. Prospectors probed for oil 75 miles south of the Arctic circle; roads sprang up through Canada's frozen wilder ness; shivering crews stretched 4-in. pipe line from Norman Wells on the Mackenzie River across 500 miles of barren north west territory to Whitehorse on the Yukon...
Gold fields that spread from ancient-Nova Scotia to the once fabulously rich deposits along the Yukon's Klondike have made Canada the second largest gold-producing nation in the world (first, by a long shot: the Union of South Africa). But gold has been neglected almost since war's start. Draft-riddled companies have seen employment dive about 40%, have watched production skid from 5,879,696 fine ounces ($205,789,392 at $35 an ounce) in 1941 to 3,649,671 fine ounces last year...
...hoped for a living and leisure. He acquired a linotype machine and an operator, upped his paper's size from four to six pages, turned out job printing for Whitehorse's few stores. On the side he published a quarterly for Canada's Anglican Yukon Diocese. One year he won a Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association award for the best paper under 500 circulation. Best of all, he did all this in an easy five-day week...