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With Expansionist Hunter in the pilot's seat, Northwest pushed westward to Seattle and Portland, hiked gross revenues threefold to $5,000,000, lifted profits from zero to over $400,000. Meanwhile Hunter made a long survey flight to Alaska, followed it with a CAB petition for a commercial route to Fairbanks, others to New York City and Washington. But the war froze these petitions in their pigeonholes, forced Airman Hunter to look for something else. He found it in a big Army contract to fly anything & everything from Minneapolis to Alaska...
Beginning with Manchuria, the picture swiftly telescopes the transformation of China's millions into an army. While cities are levelled and as many as a thousand Chinese are killed in a single hour, millions crawl westward along the roads. In the interior mountains they build underground factories, train troops, organize men, women & children to defend their nation. When at length Japan attacks the U.S., U.S. officers go to China to learn from experts how to fight Japs. In China they find "the very pattern of a modern fighting state...
Charles Kingsley wrote this in Westward Ho! His comments seem to be as much to the point...
...plays, on such subjects as The Westward Movement and Immigration, were surprisingly well written, and the Workshopmen set about the task of producing them. Boston's short-wave station, WRUL, served as an adequate medium, even if practically no members of the student body were able to tune...
...Army predicted, it was above all the year of logistics. A few hours after Pearl Harbor the Santa Fe's Super Chief and the Union Pacific's City of Los Angeles were holed into sidings to let the first troop and munition trains thunder westward to the Coast. From then on the rails, which during 1940 and 1941 looked ripe for socialization to New Deal enthusiasts, turned in a record which made the socialization argument academic. Passenger-miles increased from 29 billion to 50 billion, or over 70%; freight ton-miles jumped from 475 to 630 billion...