Word: siberias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese, who might have counted on the Aleutians as a flanking base during operations against Siberia, as a point from which to threaten Alaska, Canada and the U.S. West Coast, and as a handy spot from which to block supplies to Asia, appeared to have made a bad bargain...
...possibilities of their attacking Siberia grew dimmer as winter crept like a paralysis over the far North. In their present state of harassment they were no great threat to the North American coastline. They had failed to block communications to Asia: cargo planes bypassed them, flew across the Bering Sea; Alaskan air routes were in operation. Last week the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce revealed that supplies in quantity were being flown from the U.S. to Alaska, thence to Russia and China. U.S. bombers may one day take the same route...
Experienced Empress. Empress Catherine the Great of Russia was born too early to believe that he who controls Alaska may control the Pacific (as Rezanov, founder of the Russian-American Co., believed). When the rich merchants of Siberia pleaded with her to make Alaska a Russian colony, the Empress slapped them down. "England's experience with American colonies," she said dryly, "should be a warning to other nations...
...Baranov made money for his company from the start. Hundreds of canoes, manned by Aleutian islanders, scoured the shores for sea otter, seals and foxes. At the cost of hundreds of lives, the precious skins found their way to Siberia, were traded to eager Chinese for copper goods, tea, cloth...
...world that most of his audience had never seen before. The center of his new map was the North Pole. Tracing future air routes with his pointer, the professor proceeded to teach topsy-turvy geography: Tokyo is nearer to Minneapolis than to San Diego. Chicago is closer to Siberia than to South America...