Word: inland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graduation, had a hard time fighting the Depression in Perth. Then, on pure nerve, he pushed up into the appalling open spaces of Northwestern Australia. Today he is the only dentist in an area stretching 1,000 mi. along the coast of the Indian Ocean and 400 mi. inland-a region the size of California and Texas combined-with a white population of perhaps 3,000 people...
...real stake in this war of Labor against Labor was jurisdictional possession of the West Coast warehousemen, who were ignored by Teamster Beck until Longshoreman Bridges in his "inland march" started to organize them. Today he has 11,000 in the C. I. O. camp. Meantime Dave Beck got the A. F. of L. to award jurisdiction over warehousemen to the teamsters, a meaningless gesture to Harry Bridges, who is now West Coast director for C. I. O. Longshoreman Bridges offered last week to settle the dispute by a National Labor Relations Board election but Teamster Beck, having only...
...self-assuredly as though potent international conferences were an everyday occurrence, Mayor Schranz of 5,000-soul Nyon welcomed conferees on "piracy" in the Mediterranean to an E-shaped table in his flower-filled municipal assembly hall, remarking that some Swiss rivers empty into the Inland Sea. Nine nations were represented-Britain, France, Russia, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Greece, Rumania, Bulgaria, Egypt-and they were there to do something about the submarines that since the middle of August have preyed on neutral shipping attempting to run food, munitions and principally oil into Leftist Spanish ports. Very quickly French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos...
...Inland Paraguay has a navy of five gunboats plying the Paraguay and Parana Rivers: rival Bolivia has no navy...
...only one plant affected, the Cambria works in Johnstown, Pa., made a relatively good showing- $10,000,000 for the quarter, $18,000,000 for the half. Last year the company earned $3,400,000 in the June quarter, $4,000,000 in the six months. Chicago's Inland Steel, the sixth and least enthusiastic member of "Little Steel," reported a good gain for the half ($8,187,000 as against $5,232,000) but its June quarter showing was nearly $2,000,000 below the $5,000,000 earned in the previous quarter...