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Show Alaska Enjoys New Boom Since 1867 when the I). S. paid Russia $7,200,000 for Alaska, America has taken the territory for granted, taking from her soil $500,000,000 worth of gold and enjoying a profitable "export" market. But last summer, with Europe aflame and with both Japan and Russia looming menacingly on the far eastern horizon, the 11. S. appropriated $50,000,000 for her defense. Huge airfields are springing up, roads are penetrating the forests, for-ests, and workmen such as those shown above are building bridges over the rushing streams. Soon 10,000 troops like the soldier at the right will disembark in Alaska. r sip H v H 4 ? : I 1 1 A: ; i-fJ Farm product s, as shown in the above picture, pic-ture, are raised in abundance, but mostly for local consumption. In the first 11) montns of l'JW exports to the territory totaled $41,600,000 against $36,400,000 in the same period of 1938. Above (left), is Theo. C. Wiehe, president of the Schenley International Co., pointing to Alaska's place on the map, after predicting an unprecedented boom for the territory which he loured extensively. Some 25,000 people peo-ple are employed in 100 canneries (left) which pack 7,000,000 cases each year. Seal fishing is a profitable profit-able enter prise. Alaskan Alas-kan imports 1 Some 25,000 peo- I Pe are employed in I " -w- j 100 canneries (left) r, ' f I Hhichpack7,000,000 W x I cases each year. Seal L s 1 V x Vv 1 fishinS is a Profit , . S & I able enter prise. Alas- ! 1 'ian mprts " 4 -s I vf ' sCiw "1 from the V. S. : - ' - 1 i ra c Z it d e ' . - "n t i meats, dairy ' W,fc4 products, L2 v i IHJT tobacco, cot- tot : j-v. -ssiii 1 jrom the U. o. include meats, dairy products, : grain, fruit, i tobacco, cot- I ton, etc. i I J6 Jf j V " ,Jte 2 te oiti imi at 7- f neau (shown above) is the ivorld's largest, pro-vuhng pro-vuhng a large part of last year's S25,000,000 ' production. Psext summer sum-mer the biggest tourist influx in Alaska's history his-tory will arrive from the mainland in boats such as the one a section of which is shown (right). Should they venture north of iomc. they can almost see a Russian air base less than 50 miles a n ay across Bering Strait. .. w,r,,,,,,,.. i. , Alaskans travel by air. This is the new Pan-American clipper. |