Word: beringer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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On the following two pages, TIME presents a map of the U. S.'s northwest frontier, and its name is Alaska. Its area is one-fifth as large as that of the 48 States. At its westernmost point the mainland of the territory is separated from the mainland of...
Up the Strait of Juan de Fuca and into Puget Sound the slim-hulled Coast Guard cutter Perseus pushed her nose last week. She tied up at Seattle and sent her crew ashore on liberty. Some of her seamen were less than judicious in what they had to tell friends...
>Last week Pan Am's Bermuda Clipper (Betsy to her crews) flew north from Seattle with a new name on her tidy hull-Alaskan Clipper. Lugging deadhead passengers from CAA, Army and Navy, she sat down at Ketchikan, Alaska, soon whisked off, finished her run at Juneau. This week...
> Canada today carries more freight by air than any other country, may well become "the air crossroads of the world." From London to Shanghai via Newfoundland, Edmonton, Alaska, the Bering Straits and Siberia is 4,000 miles shorter than via the route now flown from New York across the Pacific...