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Good start to a system of military fields through the main body of Alaska is the airport system of Pan Am's sourdough subsidiary, Pacific Alaska Airways. Bossed by Alaska Veteran Joe Crosson, P.A.A.'s pilots operate in & out of Fairbanks, Whitehorse, Burwash Landing, Tanana Crossing, Ruby, Nome, McGrath, Ophir, Flat and Bethel. To help civil aeronautics and, in the long run, the defenses of the northwest frontier, the Civil Aeronautics Bureau is dotting Alaska with emergency fields, installing radio range stations for navigation at night and in bad weather...
Last week Charles Burdick had finished his job, was flying home to report to his boss, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes. And the Eskimo population around Nome was working hard to fill an order for 800 reindeer skinparkas (at $30 apiece) for the U. S. Army...
...into regular twice-a-week service, lugging passengers and mail from Seattle to Juneau in seven hours, bringing the vast, untapped riches of the Territory within 24 hours of Manhattan. At Juneau, Betsy will have scheduled connections (via Pan Am's Pacific Alaska Airways) to Fairbanks and Nome, three hours farther west on the Bering...
...union (A. F. of L.) won much-needed public good will when it agreed to drop overtime, work straight hours repairing plumbing. The Rio Grande Valley was hard hit: half the citrus crop near Brownsville was still on the trees, and Brownsville, at 29°, was colder than Nome, Alaska at 33°; 75% of the tomato crop was believed killed; beets and cabbages in the coastal bend near Corpus Christi were damaged. Estimated value of endangered fruit...
...most spectacular and successful international airline in the world. Spanning 53 countries and colonies in both hemispheres, it owes as much to Juan Trippe's genius for a tough diplomatic bargain as it does to his uncompromising insistence on operating perfection. From Lisbon to Hong Kong, from Nome to Buenos Aires, its 63,000 miles of airways, its 263 bases, run like clockwork. Without Trippe's astute bar gaining in foreign capitals, without his engineer's supervision of technical development, it might today be no more impressive than Britain's conservative Imperial Airways...