Word: orientalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...followed by CAB, recommended that Northwest fly the adventurous Great Circle route from Minneapolis-St. Paul to Manila via Alaska, Paramushiro, Tokyo and Shanghai. As Northwest now flies from New York to Minneapolis (TIME, Jan. 1), it would thus have the first direct service from New York to the Orient...
Flying Northwest's cold, snow and fog blanketed route to the Orient will be a new and daring experience for most civilian travelers, but old stuff to Northwest's frostbitten pilots. For Army's Air Transport Command Northwest's pilots have piled up more than 17 million miles of flying north of the U.S. border. Thanks to improved de-icing equipment, they have been able to fly 95% of all ATC's tough north Pacific schedules on time...
MacArthur had the qualifications. As a young man, he had seen Japan in the flush of its victory (1905) over decadent Tsarist Russia. He had studied the Jap military machine and its methods. He had seen something of the Orient when he was an aide to his roving father, Lieut. General Arthur MacArthur...
Within weeks, perhaps within days, foreign traders will know the answer to a question they have mulled for three and a half years: how long would it take after war's end for raw materials from the Orient to reach the U.S.? Some guesses last week...
Captain Griffin's record shows the 80% destruction of "the greatest Christian city in the Orient." It shows, still more dreadfully, the destruction wrought upon the mild, brave people who lived in it: children who were shot down as they prayed; gnarled stacks of bodies burned alive; people who were killed with their hands tied behind them; a bayoneted mother & child at the feet of the Virgin. It shows, among the living, bayonet wounds, and the agonized collapse of a woman who has been raped; and, in the faces of those physically untouched, wounds of the soul no less...