Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlantic and Pacific services. So Trippe filed for routes that would sew up every major service on the world airways. He plotted on the map of Pan Am's world (see cut) new services to South Africa, to Moscow via Iceland or London, to Asia via Alaska, and to Australia via Hawaii. Most daring of all: the dream of pushing on across the Mediterranean over India, and linking Pan Am's Atlantic and Pacific routes into a globe-circling system. If & when other U.S. airlines get their overseas certificates, they will have to scratch hard and deep...
...Poland, the Balkans, France and China last week the tone, the temper, and even the social and political contours of a new freedom were taking shape. Well might Americans rub the sleep from their eyes and wonder what this new freedom in Europe and Asia would mean to their old freedom. It was too soon to tell. But one fact was inescapable: the world war was not over, but the postwar world was here...
...night's lecture was the first in a series of four on "China in a New World." The topic was "China--Land and People," and Professor Chang made it clear that he was only laying the foundation for succeeding talks on "China and the World Powers," "China and Southeastern Asia," and "China and Japan...
...greatest campaign of the year in Asia opened last week amid the yellow stubble of South China's rice paddies, just harvested of their bumper crop. At Hengyang the Japanese had won the battle of Hunan. There they had paused for regrouping, to consolidate their supply lines and to rest their troops. Twice in a month they had feinted, first due south toward Canton, next southwest toward Kweilin, site of a major Fourteenth Air Force base. Both times they had halted, not yet certain they had the preponderant strength needed to finish...
While the monsoon rains beat a devil's tattoo on the elephant-iron roofs of the Southeast Asia Command. Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten returned last week to his headquarters in Ceylon from a visit to London. In Britain he had conferred on measures to be taken when the monsoon lifts in the fall. By that time war materials of every sort can flow from the battles in the West to battles still to be fought in the East. Meantime, the Southeast Asia Command had time for recapitulation and appraisal...