Lower For|ty-eight

Lower For|ty-eight
Lower For|ty-eight or Lower 48 «FR tee AYT»,
U.S. the forty-eight states of the continental United States excluding Alaska: »

People [leave] Anchorage and Fairbanks…Some, of course, are interested only in a year or two's work, then to return with saved high wages to the Lower Forty-eight (John McPhee).


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