In 1942, during WWII, the Federal Works Agency wrote to the AGC proposing to build a highway to Alaska.

With the possibility of a strike on the United States from the north, it make the project imperative.

Eighty-one contractors employing some 15,900 Americans and 3,700 Canadians, supplemented by about 11,000 pieces of equipment, built the Alaska Highway.

A massive attack never came, but instead, the U.S. and Canada got one of their top postwar tourist attractions.

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