Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chungking spokesmen conceded that the great city of Harbin would fall to the Chinese Communists when the Russians pull out this week. For the moment, at least, the Nationalists were confined to the western and northern coastal area of the Liaotung Gulf, save only for the blunted column reaching from Mukden along the Dairen-Harbin railroad toward Changchun. The Communists-with 300,000 troops already in Manchuria-were siphoning in more, by land from the northwest, by sea from Shantung Peninsula to the Liaoning province port of Antung. The Nationalists had two more armies en route, five already...
...date divining rod-for oil-was announced last week by California's Union Oil Co. It was a scheme for finding oil in shallow coastal waters: a steel diving chamber, which Union Oil plans to use off the Louisiana coast this month...
There are other elementary needs. Clothing is desperately short; raw cotton is needed for the surviving textile plants. Transport has to be repaired: river and coastal shipping is down to 100,000 tons from the prewar 1,500,000; railway coverage has shrunk to a fourth of the prewar meager 16,000 miles. Broken dikes must be mended, whole cities rehoused, chronic inflation checked...
...went on to graduate school at Harvard, Oxford, Duke, Columbia, etc., where 17% earned degrees. Although a little better than one-half of them went straight from college into journalism, the rest took first-jobs as teachers, clerks, pressagents, warehousemen, gas meter readers. One was "a wiper on a coastal steamer...
...fleet at anchor in shallow water, where divers could go down later to examine the hulls of sunken ships; 2) upon a fleet in deep water. Both are extremely difficult to arrange. In neither case can the ships be manned. The shallow water test must be made where no coastal lands will be affected; it must be far from important fishing grounds and from ocean currents which might carry radioactive water to populated shores...