Word: inland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their exhausts spout blue fumes into the mountain air. Tough, broadnosed bulldozers hungrily tear up the soil; potbellied scrapers scoop and level it; lumbering compact-ers press it down with their massive weight. Directly before the machines looms a 500-ft. hill that stood in the way of the inland-bound gold seekers of the 1840s, forced the Southern Pacific railroad and later a highway to slink humbly around its base. But it does not deter the road builders of 1957. Their rugged and powerful machines are slashing through the hill, cutting a 360-ft.-deep, 2,200-ft.-long...
...revenooers when he got homesick and visited England two years ago, Playwright Noel Coward scuttled back to the West Indies. Last week, his status as a loyal but nonresident British subject established by a two-year exile, Man-Without-a-Problem Coward (he will not have to pay the Inland Revenue taxes on income earned outside England if he stays away at least six months a year) blithely spirited himself back home, disdained to talk of crass cash: "I really do get rather bored. I find the talk about money rather vulgar. I am an artist...
Clarence B. Randall, retired chairman of Inland Steel Co LL.D...
Each inch of draft carved from connecting channels will permit large lake ships to carry about 100 more tons of cargo. This will bring bigger, faster, more modern ships onto the world's busiest inland waterway, clip the Duluth-Cleveland voyage from seven days to five, cut lake shipping costs by 15? to 18? a ton, save shippers $10 million a year. It will also unlock the lakes for large-scale foreign trade. Some shippingmen predict that by 1965 Great Lakes-overseas traffic will go up tenfold, and the U.S. St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. optimistically forecasts that...
Militarily, the next try, just three months later, was even less brilliant. The rebels under General Eduardo Lonardi took inland Cordoba, but General Aramburu, attempting to subvert the garrison at Curuzu Cuatia, had to get out afoot when Perón poured reinforcements against him. After three days of fighting, Perón's general staff in Buenos Aires correctly concluded that it could contain the uprising-and it probably would have, except for a rebel admiral named Isaac Rojas, who had commanded the uprising at a naval base, was now heading for the capital in the captured cruiser...