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...Japs had expected a long stay on Attu. Their food supplies were ample: shrimp and crab meat and bamboo shoots, spices and soy sauce and dried black seaweed for flavoring rice. They varied this diet by catching salmon and halibut, shooting Emperor geese and Yukon River ducks. They had hundreds of gallons of sake...
...Battle Is Too Big. Typical is the story of stocky, plain-talking Clifford Mooers, founder of Shasta Oil Co. As a young man, Mooers prospected for gold in the Yukon, ran an Alaskan trading post for three years, was a flyer in World War I. Fitted for the risky business of wildcatting, he formed his Shasta Co. in 1925. For 17 years he was glad to take the long odds. But last month he decided he could not buck the new war regulations. He sold Shasta Co. to Stanolind for $750,000. Said he bluntly: "The present trend of bureaucratic...
...Journal that they have just published includes stories about the scaling of Mt. Hayes in 1941, an expedition to Peru, the conquest of Mt. Bertha in Alaska, and the trek up Mt. Walsh and Mt. Wood in Yukon territory...
...gold was discovered in a humid, feverish valley on the northeast coast of New Guinea, about half way between Salamaua and Buna. Men rushed into the valley, an opposite in every way to the Yukon. To get their gold out, they built an airfield at Wau, on a plateau 3,000 feet high...
Before the Yukon formality, two bulldozer drivers had an opening of their own. Negro Corporal Refines Sims Jr., pushing his bulldozer down from the north, saw trees falling toward him. Over the fallen trees from the south Private Alfred Jalufka of Texas clawed and jerked his own bulldozer. The highway crews at last had met-20 miles east of the Alaska-Yukon border. The Negro and the Texan leaped from their machines and shook hands. The seven-month job was almost done. Then they backed their bulldozers and began widening the trail they had opened...