Word: inland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Storm. The new State Guards have been orphans of the emergency, without central organization, without training, often without guns or even uniforms. Yet even experts agree that a home guard has a real function. A modern enemy attacking a coast lands not only on the shore, but far inland. Defense must be in a depth, not of 30 or 40 miles, but of 200 or perhaps 400. To protect the whole area with an army is prohibitively expensive in men and materiel. Only a civilian force of guerrillas naturally spread throughout the area, can take the sting out of surprise...
...resort on .the Hudson just above New York's 125th Street Ferry. Last week the FBI did some infiltration of its own. Trapped were an undisclosed number of Germans. Seized by the FBI: 30 collapsible rubber boats of the type used by the German Army, maps of inland waterways, radios, cameras, field glasses, guns, 450 rounds of ammunition. The spy-suspects were whisked to an undisclosed jail...
...acquainted with all the boat people," Mrs. Slocum landed bigger & bigger jobs. Now her Boat Transit Co. has 23 tractors and trailers, some of special sizes. Her business came not only from boatbuilders like Chris-Craft at Algonac, but from private yachtsmen who wanted to sail into strange inland waters, have their boats trucked home. Blue-eyed Mrs. Slocum, president of Boat Transit Co., is no terrene "Tugboat Annie," does not drive a truck herself. Husband Lawrence does...
When the Navy began to order small craft (up to 45 ft.) from inland yards, the Slocums hauled them east to tidewater, made that their principal business. Up to now their biggest headache has been the variety of State restrictions on size and length (TIME. April 6), for most of her loads are outsize and require special permits. ODT's new return-load restrictions are giving her a worse headache; for boats are her specialty, and boats nowadays are all moving towards tidewater, not away from...
University of Wisconsin. An inland home of isolationism before Pearl Harbor, Wisconsin has since doubled its R.O.T.C., organized the first university ski troop, even staged a night "commando" raid, with 100 men in blackface wading ashore from Lake Mendota to capture a cottage on the lower campus. The daily Cardinal has started a campaign to endow a chair to teach the causes & cures of war. Late this month the university will break a strict rule to give an honorary degree in absentia to General MacArthur, utilizing short wave...