Word: orientator
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...Alaska Airlines when it weakened further. But Tenderfoot Law planned to fool them. This week, he flew north with a hatful of plans which he firmly believes will 1) make Alaska Airlines undisputed top dog, 2) put it in a key spot athwart postwar Great Circle routes to the Orient...
...could only lie panting, waiting for some small return of strength. Endless blocks of homes lay in charred ruins. Most buildings were damaged; everywhere piles of glass-spangled rubble spilled into the streets. It was robbed as well as wrecked: the Japanese had stripped the Pearl of the Orient systematically of automobiles, refrigerators, furniture-everything that had been deemed worthwhile to ship to Japan...
...previously argued persuasively for a line to Honolulu, which United's president, William A. Patterson, whimsically defined as nothing more than a 2,400-mile extension of his domestic trans continental route. They now asked for an Alaskan route in addition. T.W.A. plotted a fast route to the Orient (via the Northern Pacific) to complete its bid for a round-the-world route. North west bid for service to Alaska, and asked permission to use the bleak "over the top" route via Tokyo and the China coast to Manila...
Douglas MacArthur came back to Manila, Pearl of the Orient...
...professional dance team visiting Kaye's camp added him to its act. and took him along to play a vaudeville house in Detroit. The show he was in played 41 one-night stands in the U.S., then sailed for the Orient, where it got by in Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, and way stations...