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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...
Patterson did not mention the rest of Ted Wyman's gaudy career. For his "meritorious and distinguished service in Hawaii," he got the D.S.M. Then he was assigned to the ill-fated Canol Project and the Alcan Highway. At the request of the Canadian Government he was removed. But he stayed on the job in Canada long enough to be officially reprimanded for "failure to enforce safety regulations" after one of his contractors' trucks exploded, killing eleven men and destroying a third of the town of Dawson Creek...
After Pearl Harbor, U.S. dollars flooded into Canada for the Alcan Highway, airports, the Canol pipeline, huge purchases of grain, aluminum, etc. By early this year, Canada actually had so big a surplus of U.S. dollars that it had become embarrassing to the U.S. Administration. Canada also had her pride. Said Mr. Ilsley in the House of Commons last week: "We always felt that, as a nation , . . free from the ravages of war we were in duty bound to stand on our own feet and indeed to share with the U.S. in assisting other less fortunate of our Allies...
Opening of the Alcan and its connections eases but does not end the prodigious labors of the Engineer troops who blazed the trail and the civilian contractors of the Public Roads Administration who ripped the permanent road through the North. Many a load of gravel will be dumped before the Engineers and the P.R.A. can dust their hands and call it a day. But the hard part is over...