Word: inland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...richest man. But he is certainly Europe's, probably the world's, most potent industrialist. Last month the Hermann Göring Works was reorganized under three sub-holding companies: one for mines and ore refining, one for arms and machine production, one for shipping and inland waterways. But the full range of its products (among them: synthetic oil, guns, turbines, textiles, typewriters, tanks, ships) is a Nazi secret...
...bombing planes, largely impotent against the scattered traffic in the dark. But early one morning last week Japanese warships and transports steamed out of the mist into Bias Bay, 40 miles north of Hong Kong, landed a force reported at more than 10,000 which promptly began moving inland, covered by bombers, across the smuggling country. Soon they threatened Wai-chow, an important smuggling station, and no strong Chinese opposition arrived...
...woman who stood 5 feet 2. When the first winter settled down over the Ohio, she had churned up a clean profit of $2,500, proving she could handle money as well as boats. From that time on. Captain Mary Greene-the only licensed woman navigator on U. S. inland waterways-was the First Lady of the Ohio...
Their parts were fabricated in inland mills shipped to the yard for assembly. The first keel was laid Feb. 12, 1918, the last 22 months later. The first ship was launched Aug. 5, 1918-less than eleven months after the yard was begun. At peak production, a keel was laid every five and one-half days. One day in 1919 five ships smoked down the ways into the Delaware in 48 minutes, ten seconds...
...William Mc-Gaffin, arriving in New York from London last week, told of at least nine sorties into German-held France by British volunteer motorcyclists. Slipping across the Channel at night, in little trawlers and fishing smacks, they landed at deserted sectors of the French coast, rattled off inland in groups of 50. One raid, detailed to harass the German Army of Occupation, capture prisoners and gather information, went as far as Amiens...