Word: adirondacks
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...Benedict Arnold sent his soldiers to dig iron for cannon in New York's Adirondack Mountains. There was iron there, but in the westward sweep of U.S. industry big steelmen passed the Adirondacks by. The country was too wild, its roads too few and its scant settlements too short of labor, they agreed, to make Adirondack mining...
Some of Anna's fame as an expert on labor relations comes from her exploits: she loves to put on overalls and hip boots to crawl into a subway tunnel or down an Adirondack iron mine 3,000 ft. But as regional War Manpower commissioner, she has done a first-rate job in New York. There she evolved the "Buffalo Plan" that became the national model for the manipulation of manpower shortages, from Connecticut to California (TIME, Sept. 27). She is an old hand at soft-soaping labor and management into agreements; a 1038 New Yorker profile said...
...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...