Word: inland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Faculty committee here are the problems of over-concentration and wasted distribution raised by the Student Council. The results of the Carnegie tests will give the boys something to go on besides theories and generalities. Seniors can help by agreeing to tell the Foundation about the leading inland waterway to the West in 1815, and who discovered the tubercule bacillus...
...Metallographer Oscar Edward Harder of Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus, Ohio), working with Inland Steel Co.'s research staff, has developed a lead-steel alloy (one part of lead to 500 parts of steel) which is just as strong as leadless steel, but can be machined 30% to 50% faster for mass-production parts. The soft, tiny particles of lead in the alloy serve to lubricate the point where the tool cuts; the tool stays sharp longer, the machine runs faster...
...Where he was first photographed with a white man, the Rev. F. D. Learner of the China Inland Mission...
Jidda, chief port of Saudi Arabia, is too scorching hot for tourists, and death is traditionally the penalty for any non-Mohammedan who should venture inland from it to Holy Mecca, birthplace of Mohammed. Jidda harbor is protected by two miles of treacherous reefs, and gingerly last week the chugging little steamer bearing Bert Fish went threading in through the narrow, twisty channel called "Jidda Gate." The blinding white and torrid town, where every window is latticed against the sun, is a maze of narrow streets into which tall stucco houses jut at crazy angles...
...Steel made 70% of its net profits in the last quarter, Republic 63%, National 42%, Inland...