Word: inland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mineral oil is too rare in Afghanistan to be used as an ointment of royal justice. Last week in Berlin, how ever, handsome Foreign Minister Faiz Mohammed Khan signed an agreement which may eventually make pastoral, wild Afghanistan one of the major oil producing regions of the East. To Inland Exploration Co., controlled by Seaboard Oil of Delaware, Faiz granted exploration rights for 75 years to every foot of Afghanistan's 270,000 square miles...
Still subject to the approval of the Afghan National Assembly, which normally meets in May, Inland s concession was greeted by oilmen from New Jersey to the Dutch East Indies as a provisional triumph for U. S. oil. It would have been less provisional were Afghanistan better recognized as a potential oil source. Until a few years ago neither oil prospectors nor anyone else traveled freely among the rifle-bearing Afghan hillmen. The potentiality of Afghan oil fields is something presumably best known to Inland. In Manhattan last week Seaboard's President John Meston Lovejoy, who is also president...
Since the Marsh Buggy frequently cruises on inland waterways, it is licensed as a Class I motorboat, has to carry red. white and green running lights, a mast, an anchor, bowsprit (which folds), life preservers, two sets of government pilot rules. Speed at sea is six knots, on dry land 35 m.p.h., on marsh 12 m.p.h. Since landmarks are scarce in Louisiana marshes and the grass often grows twelve feet tall, all steering is done by compass...
...States, 22 have direct access to tidewater. Busy though far inland are such U. S. ports as Houston, Tex., 50 miles from the Gulf of Mexico; Portland, Ore., 112 miles, and Seattle, Wash., 143 miles from the Pacific; New Orleans, 107 miles from the mouth of the Mississippi...
...Inland Steel's earnings of $3,788,000 were the largest for any third quarter in the company's history...