| Show alaska enjoys new boom since 1867 when the V S paid russia for alaska An america terica has taken the territory for granted taking front from her ter soil worth of gold and enjoying a profit profitable abl e export x port market but last summer with europe aflame an and d with both bot I 1 japan and russia loon looming ting menacingly on the jar jar eastern hori horizon on the U S appropriated we 50 for her defense v U huge airfields are springing imaging ii aging up tip roads are arc penetrating the forests forest and workmen such as t those 10 se shown above are dra building bridges over the rushing streams st streams reims soon troops like the soldier at the right will disembark in alaska N farm products are raised n abundance mostly for local consumption annual fur export U S is valued at i in the first 10 months ol of 1940 exports to io the territory totaled against ina W the sonic same perio period d of 1938 above left is theo C ficie Fi pie president ol of the schenley international co pointing to alaska place on the map after predicting an am unprecedented boom f for or the territory which he ha toured extensively recently sonic people are canneries left which X pack cases T each year seat fishing is a profitable en ter prise Ala int arts front the S include brats dairy p r 0 d u c t s 4 gran fruit to babco cotton and goods T u P M E 40 M ki the gold at juneau I 1 shown above is the 1 tc largest provid ng a large part of last year s production the biggest tourist influx in alanskas history atvill arrive front 0 the tha inland in beati such as the one IR vir of which is right should they venture north A of Nome they can alit lost see a russian vir base less shaw 50 miles away across bering strait kioto then this land needs defending rv Y ac PR tm adv r ai 6 alaskans Ala travel by a air lr this is the neto pan american clipper |
