Word: inland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...call his own, and finally found it on a vacation trip to South Wales: "Lying through sheer laziness on the warm shore, my eye became riveted to what it would-some sea-eroded rocks, for instance, which I would notice were reproducing precisely in miniature the form of the inland hills. These and other things delighted me: the twisted gorse on the cliff edge, twigs like snakes lying in the path, the bare rock ... I found that I could express what I felt only by paraphrasing what I saw ... I learned that landscape was not necessarily scenic...
...campaign to get the Government out of competition with private business, the Eisenhower Administration last week registered its first sale. The Inland Waterways Corp., which was begun by the Coolidge Administration in 1924, was sold to St. Louis Shipbuilding and Steel Co.'s new subsidiary, Federal Waterways Corp. of Delaware, for about $9,000,000. St. Louis Shipbuilding is owned by Herman T. Pott, 58, who has never before run a river freight system, though he is the largest U.S. builder of towboats and a leading builder of barges. (In the last 10 years he has supplied...
Started as an "experiment" to promote inland water transportation, the I.W.C. (better known as Federal Barge Lines)* has been in the red for 17 of its 29 years, last year turned its first profit ($379,385) since 1943. In all, the U.S. has pumped about $27 million into the line, has taken a $13 million operating loss. Three Secretaries of Commerce (Henry Wallace, W. Averell Harriman and Charles Sawyer) who tried to sell the line failed. Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks succeeded by narrowing a field of 208 prospective bidders down to seven and then employing some vigorous salesmanship...
...largest inland barge systems in the U.S., operating on 3,300 miles of the Mississippi and its tributaries in eleven Midwestern and Southern states. Physical assets: 253 barges, 4 tugs, 20 towboats, 20 new barges and one new towboat to be delivered this year, and a profitable 18-mile railroad...
...Inland, the sport is taking over waters that never saw a sail before. Near Atlanta, Ga. three years ago, a federal flood-control and power project created a winding lake, 30 miles long. By now, over what was once a land of cotton, the yachtsmen of two new Atlanta clubs can sail fleets of Thistles, Y-Flyers and Snipes every day of the year. At Wichita, in the dry state of Kansas, lives the National and Western Hemisphere champion in the Snipe (15½-ft.) Class, Aeronautical Engineer Ted Wells, who does his home sailing on tiny ( ⅔ sq.mi.) Santa...