Word: inland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...joint air, sea and land maneuver, Carib-Ex pulled together 17,000 men, 200 planes and 30 ships, making it the biggest U.S. military show in Latin America since the 1930s. As the landing force knifed inland, a swarm of helicopters deposited another Marine assault force near the vital Gatun Locks. Two days later 1,000 paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division floated down to take strategic ground on the Pacific side of the Isthmus...
...there have been some production cuts, several big companies came in with substantial profit gains. Republic Steel Corp. had the highest first-quarter sales and earnings ($1.81 a share v. 1956's $1.62) in its history. Profits were also up for Bethlehem Steel Corp. ($1.24 v. $1.04) and Inland Steel Co. ($2.59 v. $2.54)-both on record first-quarter sales...
...Manila's Nichols Field at 3:15 a.m. Then there was only silence. Two hours later, when the plane failed to arrive, the silence became ominous. By dawn, Philippine naval vessels and air-force planes, later joined by the U.S. Air Force, were scouring the lovely inland sea between Cebu and Manila. By radio and whisper, the news spread: the Philippines' beloved President Magsaysay was missing. The long morning wore on. In the barrios, priests offered up special prayers, and Filipinos clustered silently around radios. Then, as night began to fall, came the "very bad news." Wreckage...
...requests were refused, said Thompson, because there was no way for the inland wells to share equally in the profits-and the commission's job is to look out for small as well as big oilmen. Some 8,500 inland wells are still not connected to any crude-gathering pipeline; the oil must be trucked to refineries at high cost. Beyond that, the existing pipeline system is operating at capacity, could not carry more oil from wells to refining centers. The way matters stood, said Thompson, Texas had already boosted allowables three times since Suez, was pumping a record...
...ideal 19th century man, a living embodiment of the "poetry of capitalism." His cheerful cry. "Open the world to the people!'' was echoed by the industrialists and investors of his time. The Suez Canal was to be only a beginning: De Lesseps dreamed of making an inland sea in the Sahara Desert, and of uniting Paris, Moscow, Peking and Bombay with a vast intercontinental railway...