Word: inland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that a small cup cost 6?. After that they firmly told their hosts to tear up the leisurely itinerary that had been prepared. Instead of sightseeing or sambaing in nightclubs with gallants from the Chamber of Commerce, they flew directly to Parana's coffee-raising center, 200 miles inland from Sao Paulo. Full of questions about fertilizers, wages, harvesting methods and crop yields, they covered 150 miles of frost-burned coffee-land by motorcade and afoot. Trudging down rows of tree skeletons, Mrs. Chapman said: "This is very distressing-worse than we had imagined...
...system similar to the "sea trains" used by the railroads to carry freight cars by water. Using specially designed ramp-loaded ships, the company plans to drive trailers on board at a Southern port, steam them north at 20-knot speeds, where waiting trucks would take them to inland customers. Each ship would make six round trips monthly between Wilmington, N.C. and Northern ports with 240 trailers each trip...
Lionel B. Hunter '37, president of Inland Steel Container Co., stated that Inland Steel's production division paid new employee $4,500 per year. In other divisions, the salary was slightly lower, Salaries in big business increase rather slowly, however, Harper disclosed...
State of the Nation has featured 22 governors-twelve Republicans and ten Democrats . . . [Guests on] Answers for Americans have been Senator Allen Ellender; W. Averell Harriman; William Caples, vice president, Inland Steel Co.; Dr. Walter...
...Nowadays everybody fiddles," admitted an Inland Revenue man. It was about the only way to get one's supper at crowded places like Les Ambassadeurs (bill for two: $35), or to make one's appearance in the Royal Enclosure at Ascot (including a new dress each day, de rigueur for one's wife: $1,400 for the week...