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...learn something about these TIME readers, who they are and how they live and work, questionnaires were sent to 23 countries ranging from Japan to Fiji, from Australia to Afghanistan...
...makes the trip in 12| hours, cutting almost six hours from the flight time of C.P.A.'s DC-45. In Honolulu, once C.P.A.'s jet liners are in service, the DC-6B passengers can transfer to the Comets for Sydney. Australia, with stops at Canton, Fiji and Auckland; the Vancouver-Sydney trip, which now takes 50 hours, will be cut to 27½ hours...
...convention. The three major TV networks were spending $10 million on convention coverage (sponsors were expected to pay only $8,000,000 of the bill). They had more than 1,000 workers on hand, some 30 tons of equipment, enough wire to stretch to the Fiji Islands and back. They relayed the convention to 108 TV stations across the land. Cities beyond the coaxial cable (Birmingham, New Orleans and Memphis) arranged for special microwave relays to pick up the big show...
...Fiji Islands, George Varat, an industrial molder, did not take time to write a letter. He simply caught the next boat to the U.S., appeared unannounced at Dr. Thompson's office. He is now on the road to recovery...
...months before Pearl Harbor, U.S. Army engineers asked Sverdrup to chart a string of air bases for a plane-ferrying route to the Philippines and Australia; he was in the Fiji Islands when war came...