Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...great immediate threat was from Nimitz, who could pick his way up the steppingstone islands to the mouth of Tokyo Bay. Whether Japan could be invaded before the Jap armies on the mainland of Asia had been engaged was still debatable. But the way to China did not necessarily lie through Luzon and Formosa. The Japs themselves had pointed to the possibility of a northern route through the Ryukyu Islands to the great ports around the mouth of the Yangtze River...
BATTLE OF ASIA The Dawn in China
Cairo was sure to become the great air junction for airlines between Europe, Asia and Africa. Now or never, Egypt must decide what role she wished to play in the air age. Outside Cairo the U.S. had already built and equipped the finest air field in the Middle East...
Canada took another step toward financial independence of the U.S. last week. Last summer she had purchased (for $76,800,000) all the U.S.built airfields on the staging routes to Europe and Asia. But there still remained in Canada vast amounts of U.S. property-movable and immovable, useful and useless. Now the two good neighbors agreed that...