Word: inland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demonstration took place in Rangoon. Part of the international volunteer air force had been assigned by the Chinese to hold an umbrella over the ocean inlet of the Burma Road. Another group (including a onetime TIME Inc. office boy, John Newkirk) protected Kunming, the inland terminus. On Dec. 23, the Japanese came over Rangoon for the first time, lost six bombers to the Flying Tigers who lost four planes, two pilots...
...NDAC, the first defense organization set up by the President in May 1940. Out of a job (unless he accepts a post under Eastman) was Rail Coordinator Ralph Budd, exponent for 19 months of the theory that the railroads are ready. ODT's Eastman will boss rail, motor, inland waterway, coastal & intercoastal transport, and pipelines...
Highways embroider no more than the coast of this huge treasure island. The only lines inland are rivers, leading into a mysterious, mountainous land of superstition and legend-the land of the Dyaks, the wild men of Borneo, who used to collect heads as Westerners collect stamps; who believe that their victims' spirits enter their own bodies and add to their strength; who live, 50 families in a bunch, in communal houses up on stilts to be safe from orangutans, honey bears, rhinoceroses, elephants, snakes...
...passes through which landings might be established. His conclusions: > The first Japanese landings would be established in Washington and Oregon. Their focus would be the rocky, grey, low land around Grays Harbor, where the Wynoochee, Chehalis, Wishkah and Humptulips Rivers have scooped out the best natural pass inland. Centering on Centralia and Chehalis, the invaders would throw their left flank toward Seattle, their right toward Portland. They would seize the passes in the Baker-Rainier-Hood chain and sit tight...
...Kowloon hills (see cut, p. 18), While bombs and artillery shells rained down on the field, U.S. and Chinese pilots loaded Daddy Kung, Madame Sun, Banker Chen and 272 other passengers into shuttling planes, crossed the Japanese lines, set them down safely 200 miles inland. By the time the airport became too hot, they had rescued the entire staff of the air company and were ready to carry on from new headquarters...