Word: inland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...airfields near the coast-along Hell's Corridor, that hot narrow path along which most raiders flew-were knocked out cold. But the R. A. F. maintained that Britain was still a tight little isle, and that fighters could rise to the defense from the London area and inland just as well as from the coast. If plane casualties were mounting, the R. A. F. replied that plane production was also mounting, and pilots could now fly their machines up to the hilt of action, then bail out if necessary...
Since mass air raids on Great Britain started, Britons have learned to watch the flight of sea birds. Gulls flying inland means that raiders are coming. But the war has been hard on sea gulls. Diving for fish killed by exploding mines, depth charges and torpedoes, they land on a surface of oil spread by sunken ships, bog down, can fly no more. Last week a Mrs. Yglesias on the Cornish coast went into the business of cleaning gulls. With the assistance of her two daughters she was able...
...started because bombastic Ben Paris, owner of Seattle's biggest sporting-goods stores, thought he was selling far too few fishing rods. The commercial fishermen, he argued, were snaring the great silver horde before the fish had a chance to get into Puget Sound or the inland lakes and streams. "Give the salmon back to the sportsman!" he shouted - so loud and so long (and at the right people) that the State Legislature five years ago outlawed commercial salmon traps in Puget Sound.* That boosted the salmon derby Ben Paris had started, with the aid of the Seattle Star...
...after losing his shirt trying to operate his own airline between Miami and Nassau. Transferred to South America, he was struck by the absence of strong and prevailing winds, of storms, heavy rains and bad weather in interior Brazil. He sounded out his superiors on the possibilities of an inland air route. They told him to explore...
...decided on the inland route. Blotner sent an unaeronautical engineer to Barreiras to find a landing field for a stop between Belem and Rio. The engineer chose a spot about three miles from town, laid out its boundaries. Last Spring an expedition cleared one runway so Pan Am engineers could fly in to finish the job. When they got there, they found that the engineer had ignored the shelf of a plateau rising 1,000 feet from the edge of the field. By some deft sideslipping the pilot got in. The engineers went to look for a new field...