American Miracle the Story of War Construction Around the World
American Miracle the Story of War Construction Around the World
Van Rensselaer Sill
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When the plant was in full operation, it poured out . 30- and . 50-caliber ammunition at the rate of 13. 5 million rounds a day. Then there were the ordnance installations in Nebraska, Okla- homa, and Indiana. The smallest of these spawning grounds of death covers 71 square miles. And there was Canol, that controversial project for supplying oil and gas to planes flying the Northern route through Alaska and the Aleutians. Here we drilled for oil at Norman Wells in the Yukon Territory near the A...rctic Circle, laid 1, 600 miles of pipe line through frozen wilderness and over the unexplored Macken- zie Mountain Range, hauled a refinery up from Texas and put it together at Whitehorse, and transported our supplies and equip- ment over 1, 200 miles of rivers, lakes, wilderness, and moun- 84 A Thousand More Jobs tains, just to get to the job at Norman Wells all this while the temperature hovered around 60 below. V Some idea of the ruggedness of the Canol job can be obtained from a sign at the contractors' employment headquarters at Edmonton.
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