Word: yukon
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...swampy flats north of the Yukon River the ground becomes iron-hard, the lakes glass-smooth. The heaviest airplanes can land on the ice. Hard on men and machines are the temperatures. Toward Point Barrow the thermometer sometimes falls to 75° F. below zero. Before Finland and the German invasion of Norway, many military experts would have said no army could operate there. Now they are not so sure...
Died. Sam McGee, oldtime Yukon sourdough and inspiration for Poet Robert William Service's rugged North-Country ballad, The Cremation of Sam McGee; in Beiseker, Alberta. Oldster McGee returned to the Yukon two years ago, found his old two-room shack turned into a tearoom emblazoned with a macabre invitation: "Have a cup of tea with the ghost of Sam McGee...
...harried British troops scurried back across the Channel last week, leaving the Nazis in sight of the chalk cliffs of Dover, Britons all over the far-flung Empire looked anxiously to their arms. No exceptions, Canadians from the Yukon to the St. Lawrence eyed their slow-moving war-expansion program askance, clamored vociferously for action, still more action...
...small, tasty shrimps of southeastern Alaska, the herring and shellfish industries are underdeveloped. Yukon mink bring the highest world prices, but could have production expanded 100 times without sinking the world price. Petroleum resources have not even been tapped...
...this phonograph records shattered over heads, beer cans galore, a bottle of potent Yukon "Cutchaw," and you have, as "The Puritan's Progress" had, material for any number of Harvard House plays. It is profane, original, and as modern as the Daily Record, in whose columns it might well run as a serial story. Which is just about what a good House play ought...