Word: inland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Still unburned: Kyoto, Japan's greatest inland city, and Yokohama, on the waterfront of Tokyo...
...their projectiles against smoking, dust-covered Iwo. When the first landing craft nosed into Futatsune Beach at 9 a.m., the opposition was thin and scattered. The Japs had pulled back from the black-ash beach, but they were calling their shots. In the next two hours, the leathernecks drove inland 600 yards to No. 1 airfield. The farther they went, as the day wore on, the stiffer the opposition...
...Associated Press had an agreement to stay out of the other's backyard. The pact ended in 1934 (although the A.P. still trades its U.S. news for Reuters' foreign coverage). In the ten years since then, Reuters has acquired only 32 U.S. clients, got only as far inland as Chicago. One handicap: the wide suspicion that Reuters is a semi-official propaganda arm of the British Government. To combat this impression, Reuters took ads in U.S. trade papers to prove that it is a cooperative like the A.P., owned by British newspapers...
...Inland to ELAS. The delegation was composed of five British trade-union leaders with impeccable labor records. At its head was Sir Walter Citrine, general secretary of Britain's Trades Union Congress. The British trade unionists interviewed scores of miscellaneous Greeks and some 500 British paratroopers (not officers) in Athens. It traveled 100 miles inland to interview ELAS' trade-union leaders, who claimed to be the real leaders of the Greek workers...
Down Steel. The profit trend was down in steel, too. U.S. Steel shipped about $2 billions during the year, the most ever, but its net slipped to $60,300,000 v. $62,600,000. Jones & Laughlin, Inland and Republic were down with Big Steel...