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¶ Air bases in northeast Siberia across the Bering Strait from Alaska, from which they could bomb any city in the U.S.
After the war, Russian fishermen prepared to take over where the Japs left off. They were snagged by a presidential proclamation forbidding foreigners to fish in the territorial waters of the Bering Sea off Alaska, best king-crabbing grounds.
But the biggest boom is in military construction. Across Bering Strait, Russia, from which the U.S. bought Alaska for $7,200,000 in 1867, is only 52 miles away. Arctic and Pacific defense looms large in U.S. military thinking, and Alaska looms large in both. As Alaska-based B-29s...
The ship was the 8,800-ton Pacific Explorer (formerly World War I freighter Mormacrey), the first big floating fish cannery owned by the U.S. Government. It needed all this un-nautical equipment to process daily 700 cases of canned crab and 150 tons of filleted and frozen fish, store...
There, with the blessing of the Department of Interior and the backing ($3,750,000) of RFC, the privately operated Explorer and its trawlers will conduct an important experiment. It hopes to prove that U.S. fishermen can replace the Japanese who, prewar, caught and processed 66% of the world'...