Word: inland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Inland Steel Co.'s President Wilfred Sykes had guided Inland to the biggest sales ($395 million in 1948) and biggest profits ($38.6 million) in its history, had made it the seventh biggest U.S. producer. But Sykes had also established a rule for automatic retirement at age 65. This week, 65-year-old Wilfred Sykes stepped upstairs to become chairman of the executive committee. He turned over the presidency to his assistant, Clarence Belden Randall, 58. A Harvard-trained lawyer who this week also became head of the Harvard Alumni Association, Randall was named a vice president...
Randall, who is executive vice-president of the Inland Steel Company of Chicago, has long held connections in the University. At present, as a member of the Board of Overseers, be serves on many committees which form policy in different College departments...
After receiving a law degree here in 1915, Randall practiced law in Michigan until 1925, when he joined Inland Steel as assistant vice president...
Deep in the Mojave Desert, across the San Gabriel Mountains and 70 miles inland from Los Angeles, lies a strange, unnatural lake. It is eleven miles long and four miles wide, with clearly defined shores and what look like beaches. But, except for a short time after a rare desert rain, the lake has no water. Its smooth and precisely level surface is cement-hard dark-red mud. Its one surface craft is a weathered wooden dummy battleship, built long ago as a bomber target. Above it, in the bright desert sky, thunder the real craft of Muroc Dry Lake...
...chain of islands picketing the vast Red-dominated land mass of Asia, Douglas MacArthur stood overwhelmingly outgunned, outmanned, and out-planed by actual and potential Soviet power. In every category of military strength (except the atomic bomb), the Soviet Union, stretching from the Bering Strait to Vladivostok and deep inland, held at least a ten-to-one superiority. Reported Douglas MacArthur: the time to prepare is now. He asked immediately for six divisions, hundreds of aircraft and increased naval forces...