Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Superfortresses of the Twentieth U.S. Air Force bombed the great Palembang oil refineries in remote southeastern Sumatra in the longest-range air assault of the war. If the B-29s could reach Palembang they could reach anywhere in Japan's homeland islands or in Greater East Asia...
...payment on her future in the air. The Dominion announced that she would repay the U.S. the millions of dollars which the U.S. Army had poured into 35 Canadian airfields and flight strips. These opened up the northeast and the northwest air passages linking America to Europe and to Asia...
...over rugged mountain country where the temperature in winter sometimes drops to 70 below. But the airway is relatively free of the fogs and rain that blanket the Pacific Coast from Puget Sound to the Aleutians. And it is the shortest practical route to Siberia and the coast of Asia...
...never before in history had Russia been such a potent force in the affairs of the world. Russian armies and Russian foreign policy were something to be reckoned with, from the Baltic to the Dardanelles. In Asia, if Russia so much as stirred, there were repercussions from Tokyo to Teheran...
...Mamoru Shigemitsu, who was Foreign Minister under Tojo. He now holds that job as well as the Ministry for Greater East Asia Affairs. Acceptable to the Army and big business, he is considered a moderate. In 1938, he settled a serious border dispute with the Soviet Union. Last spring he transferred Japan's extraterritorial rights in China to Puppet Wang Ching-wei. His Greater East Asia responsibilities include the continent from Manchuria to Burma. When face-saving or gracious withdrawals become inescapable, Shigemitsu can do both with honorable grace...