Word: inland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winkles." One day last week Conservative prestige hit a new low and simmering young Tory dissatisfaction reached the boiling point. In Commons Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison triumphantly announced more steps toward the nationalization of British industries. He added Britain's gas and electric utilities, railroads and other inland transport, docks and harbors, iron and steel plants* to the specific list of Labor's socialist objectives...
...west, in the inland provinces of Honan, Shansi, Suiyuan and Chahar, the Communists were on the offensive. They had attacked at least a dozen provincial towns surrendered by the Japanese to Central Government forces. At week's end they were storming two important places: Tatung, North Shansi rail junction; and Kweisui, capital of Suiyuan...
...Communist forces along the Great Wall were part of the famed Eighth Route Army. After taking over the ancient crossroads city of Kalgan, some 215 miles inland from Chinwangtao, and making it the capital of a new border government, the Eighth turned its energies to Manchuria. A Communist spokesman blandly explained that the Russians, observing the letter of their treaty obligations in Manchuria, had forbidden the Eighth to enter -as an army. But the Russians had welcomed Communist "civilians." Said the spokesman: "There is a possibility that these civilians armed the people." In any event, strong Communist forces were grouped...
...bombs dropped in the Los Angeles area could completely wipe out the giant Southern California plane industry. What must be done, said the report, is to disperse the aircraft industry. This could best be accomplished by letting coast planemakers trade some of their present plants for Government-owned facilities inland. The moving costs should be paid by the Government...
Carriers, battleships, cruisers, destroyers, submarines steamed into East Coast, West Coast, Gulf Coast ports-Seattle, San Francisco, New Orleans, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, New York-while landing ships waddled up the rivers and canals to inland cities like St. Louis, Cairo, Ill., Dubuque, Iowa, Minneapolis and St. Paul...