Word: inland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lieut. Lawson and his crew, the raid ends in wreckage and agony on the China coast. Guerrillas help the broken men inland. Chinese doctors do all they can with heartbreakingly scanty medical supplies. Gangrene develops in Ted Lawson's leg; by the time an American doctor reaches him, there is nothing to do but take it off. In a shot which M.G.M. had the creditable courage to leave in the picture, despite preview complaints, two nurses carry the grim weight of the leg away down a corridor...
Bethlehem Steel did a little better than U.S. Steel. With its steel division straining at 103% of capacity, and enough launchings to cut its huge $2 billion of unfilled ship orders by a third. Bethlehem squeezed its earnings up slightly to $19.8 million. Republic, Inland and Jones & Laughlin all reported lower profits...
...fighting on Leyte was in many ways the most remarkable of the Pacific war. The Japs made only a halfhearted attempt to defend the beaches, then fled inland in disorganized haste. Before they could regroup for a real fight, they had lost half their total force - 14,405 killed and wounded, by General Douglas Mac-Arthur's count...
Last week Major General Franklin Sibert's X Corps, which had made the northern (right flank) landing on the eastern shore, pushed inland after capturing the capital city of Tacloban, where Philippines President Sergio Osmeña promptly set up his provisional capital. Then Sibert's troops fanned out along the north coast, and southward to join Hodge's XXIV Corps, which was moving north from Burauen after driving inland from their beachhead...
...Japs fought fanatically for the inland town of Pastrana, and U.S. casualties there were heavy. But the Japs, after losing the Leyte Valley and its excellent airfield terrain, streaked for the west coast, began embarking for Cebu in barges and other small craft, under fire from U.S. PT boats. Meanwhile the 21st Infantry, which had landed on A-day at Leyte's southern end, overran the southern third of the island with help from guerrillas. This week Douglas MacArthur announced that two-thirds of Leyte, including 212 miles of north and east coastline, had been liberated...