Word: adirondacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Forge, N.Y., in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains, a pretty, blonde, 18-year-old, 120-lb. girl hoists into her truck as many as 30 mail sacks a day, drives 108 miles through one of the East's heaviest snow belts, delivering mail over a route her father left for war work. When snow piles higher than the running boards of her truck, Mailwoman Ann Gibbs takes to her skis, sack on her back, to reach isolated camps...
Beside the long-abandoned Maclntyre iron mine in New York's Adirondack vacationland-of all places-National Lead Co. last week put the finishing touches on a mill that will make the U.S. independent of imports in two critical materials and crack wide open two war-effort bottlenecks: vanadium and titanium...
...college, just founded, got its name and its money from the late Paul Smith, Adirondack mountain guide who made a fortune running a hotel. It has a president (Peddie School's Teacher Earl C. MacArthur), a campus (the hotel grounds in Paul Smiths, N.Y.), an administration building, a charter-and it expects to have a student body and award degrees. But it will have no teachers, books or courses. It plans to send its students elsewhere to get an education...
...protest against war, which he resents because it may keep him from his work. "War just isn't right anyhow," says he. It took him three years, working at night cutting the plaster matrices with power-driven tools, to make the 15 medals. From his cabin in the Adirondack Mountains he commutes periodically to Manhattan in a truck which he and his wife use for pleasure as well as for business trips...