Word: inland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many men in American industry think of free enterprise as a hunting license, as something they use to get what they want for themselves. [They don't] measure up to the responsibility side of free enterprise, which requires standing on your own feet." Thus last week Inland Steel Chairman Clarence Randall, who is also an adviser on foreign economic policy to the Administration, lashed out at "those who sabotage" free enterprise...
...inland city of San Luis, Rebel General Julio Lagos stalked into the headquarters of General Jose Maria Sosa Molina, who had replaced him as commander of the Second Army. "Who gives orders here, me or Sosa Molina?" thundered tough General Lagos. With that, the key Second Army, controlling three interior provinces, was on the rebel side...
...Gloster Meteor jet fighters flown by air-force pilots rained down leaflets declaring that the city "has been conquered again for God and the fatherland." Rebel sailors took over the naval bases at Rio Santiago and Puerto Belgrano (see map). Army garrisons seized control of the inland barracks towns of Arroyo Seco and Curuzu-Cuati...
...Juscelino Kubitschek, 54, peppery ex-governor of inland Minas Gerais, candidate of the Social Democrats and the Vargas-created Labor Party. Worth many a vote to Kubitschek is his claim to be the political heir of Vargas, whose name is still magic among down-at-heel Brazilians. After first denouncing Kubitschek, Brazil's outlawed but vote-swinging Communist Party recently made an opportunistic switch and endorsed him. But he can hardly be called a pink, much less a Red. In fact, he fits into no ideological pigeonhole, but campaigns as a man of action who promises to build, build...
...Italian in an Irish sea. The lower Greenwich Village neighborhood of his birth was about 95% Irish, about 5% Italian. (Today, the ratio in that neighborhood is almost precisely reversed.) His father, Gerard De Sapio, came to the U.S. at the age of ten from Avellino, some 30 miles inland from Naples. Recalls Gerard: "We were on a flat-bottomed scow, maybe like the Staten Island ferry, if you know what I mean, but I thought it was the greatest ship in the world. I used to go up on the deck and look at the sea and dream...