Word: inland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Naked children scuttled to cover behind mud huts. Startled vultures lurched up from the roadway. Down the muddy roads of Venezuela's back country roared a ten-ton Fruehauf truck-trailer. Loaded with chilled beef from the Government's new slaughterhouse at inland Calabozo, it was bound on a twelve-hour haul to the meat-hungry markets of Caracas...
Communist armies gripped Harbin, junction of Manchuria's rail network. Communist guerrillas harried water traffic on the Yangtze and the Grand Canal, roved menacingly near the rail arteries connecting Tientsin, Tsingtao and other ports with inland centers, such as Mukden and Tsinan. Red troops cut off Nanking and Shanghai from western China...
...International Longshoremen's & Ware housemen's Union, the American Communications Association, the Inland Boatmen's Union, the Na tional Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association, the National Maritime Union and the National Union of Marine Cooks & Stewards (all C.I.O.), and the Pacific Coast Marine Firemen, Oilers, Water-tenders and Wipers (independent...
...transportation is changing all that. Last week a Panair do Brasil plane glided into a new airfield in the town of Governador Valladares, in inland Minas Gerais state. Aboard were the atabrine, antiseptics and insecticides that the U.S.-and Brazilian-sponsored SESP (Servigo Especial da Saude Publica) now flies to 32 backwoods outposts, from, the Amazon to the Mato Grosso. Crowds watched the plane come in. In other "lost towns" other crowds watched the landings of planes of Cruzeiro, Vasp, Aerovias do Brasil...
Duisburg, the great inland port at the confluence of Rhine and Ruhr, had lost a third of its workers to hunger, disease and fatigue. A correspondent reported: "Four [nearby] brothels thoughtfully provided by the Nazis for [the workers'] diversion are still open, but queues are missing...