Word: hinterlands
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...tried the prize ring, proved to be "the only fighter that had to be carried both ways." When Bob was 21, a scandal-scarred Fatty Arbuckle came to Cleveland, hired Hope and a friend (George Byrne) to fill out his vaudeville act. Afterward the pair started hoofing through the hinterland. In a shabby theater in New Castle, Ind. came the turning point of Hope's career. He was asked to announce the next week's vaudeville bill, gagged the assignment to furious applause, turned monologuist on the spot. As a "single" with a flip, fast delivery, he landed...
...Axis prisoners now quartered in wire-ringed camps scattered through the U.S. hinterland, the war is over but not the duration. On both sides of the wire, prisoners and guards alike wait for an end to their unwilling fellowship. Last week the press was permitted to inspect some of the camps newly built as by-products of victory. One of the most notable that newsmen saw, because it houses the most explosive elements (German and Italian officers, but quartered separately), is Camp Crossville, Tenn...
Chungking is 280 miles southwest of the Yangtze gorges. If the capital and its hinterland of Szechwan Province is the goal, strategy should call for complementary Jap drives from north and south...
...radio net that Mickey dominates by sheer voice power is an entirely new web thrown over the superlative Chinese A.R.P. net in the last eight months. Never in the past four years has an undetected Jap raider slipped through that net into the hinterland. The Chinese posts are usually far away in hills, jungles and valleys. One man pumps current for the radio with his legs, another reports what the Japs are doing...
...many there are of these little primary posts. The secondary posts are all linked together by telephone lines. Here, at certain secret points like Mickey's, U.S. radio stations have been set up to tap the secondary and flash warning of raiders to American fighter posts in the hinterland...