Word: inland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HEROES Chopper Pilot At Fort Lewis, Wash, last week, Marine Captain James V. Wilkins recalled an experience he had had in Korea. "On July 3, 1951," he said, "I was flying a Corsair with my squadron along the east coast of Korea, 15 miles inland and about 20 miles south of Wonsan. We ran into heavy ground fire from a road reconnaissance outfit; my plane was hit and began smoking heavily. I bailed out at 800 feet and landed on the inland side of a small bowl east of the main supply route. The North Koreans were lined...
...Inland Empire of the Northwest (Nov. 1, 1954), a look at the rich land behind the Rockies and the Cascades, its people, cities, towns, dams and irrigation projects...
...careful look reveals surprising signs of a new civilization rising among the ocotillos and greasewood. Thin asphalt ribbons stretch across the sand, linking black and white dots of clustered homes, blue bands of irrigation canals and rectangles of bright green new farms. From California's southern coastal ranges inland 375 miles to the central Arizona cities of Phoenix and Tucson, the searing desert, long a shunned part of the U.S.'s land surface, is filling up. Today, thousands of pioneers are moving in, claiming a brand-new empire in which to build new homes, farms, businesses...
...WATER PROBLEM IN LIMA, OHIO, REFERRED TO IN YOUR ARTICLE, WAS SOLVED AS A RESULT OF OUR RECOGNIZING THE SEVERE ECONOMIC LOSSES BEING SUFFERED WHEN INDUSTRIES . . . "PASSED LIMA BY" BECAUSE OF OUR INABILITY TO GUARANTEE FUTURE WATER SUPPLY. LIMA NOW OUTRANKS MOST INLAND CITIES IN HAVING ABUNDANT SUPPLY OF WATER. WITH OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY ACTION LIMA DOUBLED ITS PUMPING CAPACITY AND MADE SEWAGE DISPOSAL IMPROVEMENTS AT A COST OF OVER $3,500,000 . . . LIMA HAS SECURED NEW INDUSTRIES WITH EMPLOYMENT-TOTALING OVER...
ALONG the steel-blue St. Laurence River, seaward outlet of the world's busiest inland waterway, a century-old dream is coming true. A work force of 15,000 men, with the most modern construction machines, is gathering on the U.S. and Canadian banks of the river to build the long-heralded St. Lawrence Seaway and power development. When it is finished in 1959, some 13 billion kilowatt hours of low-cost electricity, three times the output of Hoover Dam, will be generated annually by the river's waters for U.S. and Canadian industry. The river...