Word: inland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foreign News Editor John Osborne, last reported in Florence, would somehow manage to get in on General Wilson's new show. (He did-on D-day Osborne flew from Italy in a 6-25, had a front-row seat for the pre-invasion bombings-was last reported far inland with our advancing armies...
Japan's shipping losses were running at the rate of more than 2,000,000 tons a year. Her shipyards could replace only 1,000,000 in steel hulls. Her emergency program for wooden ships, 100 to 300 tons, was a flop; they were good only for Inland Sea and intercoastal traffic. Short of oil, minerals, food, even lumber, the Empire was in a pinch...
Tuesday morning the blow fell. Parachute and glider troops dropped down before dawn on German strongpoints inland. By sunrise a great Allied fleet of 800 ships was offshore battering coastal positions with its big guns while powerful air assault forces concentrated their bombs and bullets on the beachhead...
...Douglas Aircraft's Chicago plant, the "wise guys" among the 20,000 employes were scurrying for new jobs. Some had already left: a layout artist switched to an aviation magazine; a riveter went to Inland Steel. To stop the flight, Douglas let word get out that it has a mountain of postwar orders locked up in the safe. But the exodus went...
...Weak to Stand. "Why more of these unfortunate people do not give up [and commit] suicide, I do not know. . . . Instead, they struggle inland with a frantic desperation of which one is forcibly reminded by seeing the deep ulcers on the buttocks of people too weak to walk who have struggled across the country in a sitting posture...