Word: inland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defensive naval weapons," said Admiral Nagano. "Our principle is to reduce the means of attack while strengthening the means of defense. . . . Aircraft carriers are the most offensive of all naval weapons because, by means of their planes, they can not only attack the coast but carry destruction far inland. . . . Japan and the United States are each other's good customers. I see no reason why-especially with the vast Pacific Ocean between us-any differences in our naval views should not be reconciled in a satisfactory manner...
...House Committee headed by Missouri's Representative Shannon has been going up & down the land for months investigating Government-in-business. It paused fortnight ago in Chicago to take another look at Inland Waterways Corp. This $24,000,000 War Department agency headed by Major General Thomas Quinn Ashburn operates a barge line on the Mississippi, Warrior and Illinois Rivers to try to demonstrate to private capital the practicality of waterway transportation. For nine years the railroads have fought the barge line's competition. General Ashburn, no diplomat, has tried to placate while competing with the railroads...
...Inland Waterways Corp. would be subject to indictment for issuing deceptive reports if it were a private concern. It practically amounts to using the mails to obtain money under false pretenses. The barge line fails to figure in its cost such items as attorney's fees, printing, franking, depreciation and the expense of operating the dams and locks it uses. If people knew the facts, they'd demand prosecution. I don't know how much bookkeeping they teach at West Point but they teach obeying orders. If General Ashburn is told to make the lines...
...bird appeared in the city, and it had arrived on shipboard. Most finders promptly called or hurried to the Bronx Zoo, learned the fallen strangers were little auks, cousins of the least auklet and the extinct great auk. Winging southward from their Arctic loomeries,they had been blown inland by a 65-m. p. h. gale...
...last storm-tossed shower was at Boston in 1871. Only 20 recorded times in the past 40 years has the bird been found inland. Looking somewhat like a dove-sized penguin, the little auk is helpless on land. It feeds chiefly on a type of water bug found only at sea, needs the impetus of a wave to get into the air. Of nearly 100 picked up in New York's metropolitan area last week, only four survived...