Word: alcan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Graton works in hot ground. His fellow Department member, Professor Kirk Bryan, is an expert in cold ground. Bryan is doing research in the permanently frozen soil of Alaska, which presents problems to men building things like the Alcan highway...
...kingdom of the Saguenay, aluminum is king and Arvida is its capital. Named for Arthur Vining Davis, 80-year-old founder of Aluminum Company of Canada Ltd. ("Alcan"),* Arvida has two aspects. As a company town it is one of the best laid out and best run on the continent. Its schools (for adults as well as children) and recreation facilities are topnotch...
...mile long, half a mile wide. There habitants who have forsaken the logging camps and rock-strewn farms work in vast Dantesque chambers among massive vats and electrolytic furnaces. The metal they turn out goes into pots & pans, airplanes, building materials, cigarette holders, poker chips, electric conduits. Soon, Alcan will build an aluminum bridge across the Saguenay...
Last week, as "Operation North" rolled out of Dawson Creek on the first lap of its 2,000-mile Alcan tour, General Worthington said: "We are not pointing the finger at any nation . . . but we have to consider if any enemy exists, just where he would come and why."* At week's end, as the caravan rolled north in trucks and autos, the only enemies encountered were dust and mosquitoes...
...model U.S. motorist, flush again on gas and tires, was all set for a long, old-fashioned jaunt. Well, where? Alaska? No, the Alcan Highway was not open this summer. How about driving down to Panama through that fascinating hot-tamale country? The U.S. Public Roads Administration (P.R.A.) gave a reluctant answer: not until...