Alaska romance amid peril on the Chakitana expedition
Sidney Lander, an Alaska mining engineer, struggles with engagement tensions and a rival, while undertaking a perilous ice bound journey with Salaria and Barbara watching. A rescue flight, rough terrain, and a warning beacon push the party toward the Chakitana as relationship tensions simmer and a cliffhanger ends the segment.
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Sidney Lander
Alaska
Barbara Trumbull
Klondike Coburn
Carol Coburn
Matanuska
Lander
Trumbull
Salaria Brusoh
Salaria
Barbara
Carol
Sidney
Ch&kitana
Snowball Baby Igloo Ship Name Recalls Bear Lake Eskimo Point
Chapter XXI describes a valley shrinking to a shadow between peaks. The narrator recalls the ship named Snowball Baby christened at Bear Lake and known as Igloo at Eskimo Point, prompting Lander to question the name.
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Lander
Bear Lake
Eskimo Point
Baseball pennant predictions from national writers in 1941
A national poll of 400 sports writers favors the Reds to repeat in the National League and Yankees to outrun the Indians in the American League with Dodgers and Cardinals close. Cubs favored for fourth with a muddled chase among Giants Pirates Bees and Phillies. The piece notes uncertainty and shifts in guesses before the season.
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Cincinnati Reds
Brooklyn’ Dodgers
New York Yankees
Cleveland Indians
Yanks
Reds
Dodgers
Indians
Red Sox
Chicago
Cubs
Lady Luck
Cardinals
St. Louis
Terry Moore
Enos
Slaughter
Don Padgett
Ernie Kay
Harry Walker
Dolph Camilli
Cookie
Lavagetto
Joe Medwick
Pewee
Reese
Giants
Pirates
Bees
Phillies
Yankees
Joe DiMaggio
Charley Keller
George Selkirk
Tommy Henrich
Bulb substitutes with annuals gain favor for garden beds
With bulb supplies cut off by war in Europe gardeners turn to annuals for color and form. Sunshine Calendula replaces yellow daffodils, California Poppy mimics tulip hues, Larkspur offers Tulip-like tones, and dwarf Snapdragons provide massed bedding options as substitutes.
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Europe
Secret of Tanks Why tanks got their name in WWI
Army tanks were named by the British War Office to hide their real nature from enemies. Early secrecy avoided leaking the true purpose, and the term tanks stuck. Tanks saw first action by Britain at Flers on September 15, 1916.
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Betsy Sebeck
Betsy
Azalea
Katie
Maria
Slim Downey
Cordova
Fairbanks
Porcupine
Slim Dewey
Lander
Slim
Salaria
Sid Lander
War Office
Flers
Neighborly Duty Reflected in Stevenson Quote
A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson speaks on personal duty to neighbors. It contrasts making oneself good with the higher call to make one’s neighbor happy if possible.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Carcajou Lake
Slim’ Downey
Blackwater Lake
Jtve
Big Squaw Creek
Sock- Eye
Landers
Robert McShane
Western My
Hank
Detroit Tigers
Dick Bartell
Charley Gehringer
Tigers
Eric McNair
Frank Croucher
Hank Greenberg
Rudy York
Chicago White Sox
Jimmy Dykes
Applecarts
Philadelphia
Washington
WNU
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Montrose
Hotel of Tomorrow
Cedar Rapids
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