From: Ellen K. 

I heard they curtailed the vodka and people died from drinking the stuff
used to de-ice airplane wings.

On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 11:02:33 +0200, "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote in message :

>"Geo"  wrote in message
news:41cc2b65{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> > I thought there were oilfields there?
>>>
>>> Yes. Fat lot of good it does the locals. The money flows steadily out of
>>> there. Maybe some corporate managers visiting the oil fields have
>>> laptops,
>>> but I don't think the actual workers get much more than a sack of
>>> (frozen)
>>> potatoes.
>>
>> Really? When the oil companies were hiring help to work in Alaska,
>> they were paying big bucks to draw people there.
>
>Well, it was Soviet Union, so paying people wasn't all that popular idea.
>Except with Vodka, there was always plenty of that.
>
>
>Antti Kurenniemi
>

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