Word: inland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other steel companies reported deficits pared or eliminated compared with the first quarter of 1933. Bethlehem reported a loss of $902,000 against a $5,769,000 loss last year. Youngstown whittled a 1933 loss of $3,473,000 to $1,423,000. Inland reported a $1,104,000 profit against a 1933 loss of $1,012,000. Republic Steel Corp. ("Rebecca" to Wall Street) lost $58,000 against $2,521,000. Wheeling also lost $58,000 but that was a big slice off last year...
...routes in two places are Western Air Express routes, one from Cheyenne to Albuquerque and the other from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles ( ). On the former route, a new mail contract will be awarded only from Cheyenne to Pueblo. Down the Atlantic Coast, from Newark to Miami and inland from Richmond to Atlanta and Jacksonville runs the Eastern Air Transport route (X∎X∎X∎X∎X∎X∎X∎), only one to have all its old contract routes included in the new setup. American Airways' southern transcontinental route extends from Newark...
...thousands of fissures in the wrinkled western shore of Norway is the Stor Fjord, an S-shaped water that snakes through the wall-sided mountains for 35 mi. before it branches into two smaller fjords. One of these is the Nordals Fjord and 15 mi. farther inland, on the narrow sills of shore, are the two tiny villages of Tafjord and Fjoraa. For months the villagers have looked up at a great overhanging jut of rock that was beginning to crack of its own weight. Some day, they knew, it would fall and splash into the fjord...
...with bruises. Capt. Harold Harris, another vice president, was unscathed. The pilot, the radio operator and a passenger were killed. Pan American-Grace had its first bad accident two years ago. A plane carrying six passengers and a crew of three took off from Santiago for Buenos Aires, headed inland over the towering Andes. An hour after leaving port the ship's radio before going dead reported thick clouds and snow flurries. The plane never reached Buenos Aires. Heavy snowfalls blanketed the slopes, choked the canyons. No trace of the plane was found by dozens of search parties...
...hazy days of the Chinese empire, centuries before Magellan reached the Orient, the Igorots of Benguet mined gold in the Philippine hills. The Spaniards snatched off their gold earrings and beat them into crucifixes. Spanish-American War adventurers, trekking inland, were greeted by natives crying "Ado Balatoc Bantay!" ("Lots of gold in the mountains.") But geological disturbances, dense vegetation, frequent droughts and lack of modern machinery kept the infant industry of the Philippines from rapid development. Not until last year did Philippine business men really begin to discover how much balatoc there was in the bantay and what...