Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...height of its production, Canol expensively puts out no more oil and gasoline in a year (1,000,000 bbls.) than ten tankers could lug to Alaska. This week Congressional leaders learned that General Somervell was going to abandon the field, charge the whole business off to the "waste of war." Next step: Canada will have a chance to bid in the plant at a knockdown price. If Canada refuses it, Canol will be put on the block...
Most fascinating historical problem of all was restated and left unanswered by Mexico City's sculpture show: where did the original inhabitants of the Americas come from? Some experts believe that the Toltecs and the Aztecs drifted to the central plains of Mexico from Asia, by way of Alaska. The tantalizing, inconclusive "evidence" that keeps cropping up in early Mexican art: what looks like Chinese jade, Oriental symbols, the swastika and a few Grecian motifs which filtered into China from Greece hundreds of years before Christ...
Since 1942, United Airlines and North west Airlines crews had flown schedule runs to New Caledonia, Alaska, Australia...
United had chalked up over 14.6 million miles of flying over the Pacific. Northwest pilots boasted that they know more than the Eskimos do about Alaska and the dismal Bering...
...than a 2,400-mile extension of his domestic trans continental route. They now asked for an Alaskan route in addition. T.W.A. plotted a fast route to the Orient (via the Northern Pacific) to complete its bid for a round-the-world route. North west bid for service to Alaska, and asked permission to use the bleak "over the top" route via Tokyo and the China coast to Manila...