Word: inland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vertical, tree-studded slopes are the bane of western skiers from Seattle to San Bernardino along the Pacific side of the Sierras. Further inland, however, the mountain tops rise above the timber line, providing countless open runs for the energetic skier...
Safety First. Steel production reached 1,710,000 tons a week (97.7% of capacity), the highest in peacetime history. Wilfred Sykes, president of Inland Steel Co., predicted that even at present capacity the industry "will be able to balance supply and demand during 1948." Nevertheless, the Department of Commerce played it safe by slapping export controls on 36 more steel products. This brought about 95% of all iron and steel shipped to foreign countries (except Canada) under its licensing system...
...George Washington, Bayonne, Goethals Bridges, the Outerbridge Crossing, the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels. The Authority also runs Brooklyn's Gowanus Grain Terminal, built the 14-story Port Authority Building that houses the Union Inland Railroad Freight Station for less-than-carload lots...
...Many Planes. The American transport plane is a vital tool of air power. But the airlines themselves were in a bad way; in the first seven months of 1947, only Eastern and Inland Air Lines managed to make an operating profit. Though September traffic was the greatest in the industry's history, the overall prospect for 1947 was still a loss. The airlines were in no shape to boost the sagging airframe industry; they ruefully informed the commission that they had already overbought on new equipment. All had been caught in the squeeze of higher wage, supply and other...
Rivermen have a saying that Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle harbor-where the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers meet to form the Ohio-is "great for towboats but hell on showboats." It was hell last week on one of the biggest, whitest and trimmest of U.S. inland excursion steamers, the Island Queen...