North toward the Orient, on the shortest possible line from Chicago to Vladivostok, U.S. warplanes roar over one of the most important air routes in the world: the northwest passage across Canada to Alaska and beyond. In Parliament last week Munitions Minister Clarence Decatur Howe announced that air-minded Canada would pay the whole shot ($58,500,000) for her sector of this line.
Canada's prime interest is in the $46,000,000 "northwest staging route": six key airports from Edmonton to Whitehorse, with runways bigger than New York's LaGuardia Field.
The original airports, built by the Canadian Government,...
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