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Northwest Gateway. The other airfields stretch from Edmonton to the Alaskan boundary. They are likely to be in heavy use in the postwar air age. Over them in the last two years nearly 5,000 Lend-Lease planes have been ferried to the Soviet Union. The route passes 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...
Evidence Enough. In addition to his other abilities, Novikov is a diplomat. Some of his best men, whom he could have used in executive capacities at home, he sent to Washington to maintain a polite but steady pressure for an evergrowing supply of Lend-Lease planes to Russia. The U.S. terminus at Great Falls, Mont., from which aircraft are flown to Russia by the Alaska-Siberia route, is now sending off equipment at the rate of many thousand planes a year. Guesses at current Soviet production are usually in the range of 30,000 planes a year. These figures...
...Victory Rally" in Akron, Rubber Director Bradley Dewey urged "every worker whose output helps to build a heavy-duty or airplane tire to make his final sprint." The synthetic production program has succeeded, he said, and "our production capacity is now so great that we have been able to lend some synthetic rubber manufacturing facilities to provide extra quantities of high-octane gasoline. . . ." Then he pointed his finger at the present bottleneck: the lack of manpower and equipment in making heavy-duty tires...
investors made during the 20's, these guarantee fees are expected to pay for the defaults. But the loans made ought to be better because: CJ The Bank will lend only for specific projects which promise to increase the productivity of the borrower and his ability to pay off the loan...
...Bank will be to make the rest of the world foot the bill for over 65% of the losses, if any. Aside from the obvious American gain under this arrangement, the world gets a profit too. For, with the Bank's guarantee, lenders can afford to lend more than they otherwise might. Thus there will be $9.1 billion of capital available for reconstruction and development by the countries which need it badly. Compared to the amounts that may eventually be needed, this amount may also be a mere shock absorber, but it guarantees at least that much...