Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week (see p. 17), Representative Warren Magnuson of Seattle, Wash, was thinking about Alaska. Mr. Magnuson's thoughts were not as far-fetched as they may have seemed. They were based on the following strategic and geographic facts: 1) if Hitler beats Russia, he gets the Trans-Siberian Railway; 2) whoever has the Trans-Siberian Railway controls Siberia; 3) Siberia is little more than a Cyclopean stone's throw from Alaska...
From Big Diomede Island, where Russia has a new air base, to rocky Little Diomede, which belongs to the U.S., is less than five miles. With Russia's Siberian bases in German hands, Alaska could become another Norway. Congress has authorized $90,000,000 for Alaskan defense, expects to appropriate from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 more in the next few months. The Army is hard at work building new airfields; Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said the Navy's new base at Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutian Islands, will be ready Sept...
Verification seemed near last week. Harvard Observatory's Donald Howard Menzel amplified Edlen's theory with data from his Siberian eclipse expedition in 1936 and from Harvard's coronagraph observatory at Climax, Colo. Inside the sun, atoms are so highly ionized-having most of their electrons wrenched away from their nuclei-that they are not matter as we know it but rather invisible, sub atomic debris. These hot, degenerate gases are expanded, Menzel believes, by the force of great whirlpools within the sun. Therefore, streaming out of the sun's interior in occasional eruptions, the gases...
Down from a Trans-Siberian Railway carriage at the frontier station of Manchouli stepped Japan's Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka one day last week. His hair was full of cinders and his head was full of plans. It was good to set foot once again on the soil of Manchukuo, since the previous Sunday more securely Japanese than ever. "I had not expected a neutrality pact with Russia at all," grinned Yosuke Matsuoka. "It was negotiated in ten minutes...
...boat. Last week there was little comfort to be had traveling anywhere in the Eastern Hemisphere, and a boat trip from Japan to Europe was hazardous and well-nigh impossible. For his much-publicized trip to Berlin, Japan's Foreign Minister chose the creaky, dirty, uncomfortable Trans-Siberian Railroad, and he let it be assumed that he would stop en route in Moscow. Just after Yosuke Matsuoka had departed, however, it was announced that he would not stop in Moscow...