Word: inland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tramping of Boots. Along these miles of roads the Japanese have heard
ominous -and recent-eastward trampings of Russian military boots.
Items: inland at Chita, east
of the Lake Baikal region.
...soon as the news hit the teletype, Capitol Hill howled. Only last month, a coalition from the heavily industrial New England, Middle Atlantic and Great Lakes states had beaten down an attempt by Alabama's Congressman Albert Rains to force dispersal of new defense plants into less populated inland areas. Cried House Republican Leader Joe Martin of Massachusetts: "When [the President] can so flout the will of the Congress, we ... might as well shut up shop and go home." Rhode Island's Senator Theodore Francis Green, a Democrat, insisted that it was easier to build defenses for "compact...
...alone in their troubles. Even the steel companies, with orders at a peak, are hit. Bethlehem Steel's gross for the first half reached a spectacular $876 million, but a doubled tax load dragged its net down 14% to $49 million. Only by boosting its sales 20% did Inland Steel add a modest 6% to its net ($19 million). Of a dozen reporting electric utility companies, eleven had higher revenues, but four had lower nets than...
...completely a central floodgate. Four other Skyraiders dropped torpedoes; one of them tore a ten-foot hole in a second floodgate. Water poured out of the dam; minutes later, the Pukhan began to rise. From the U.S. Army to the U.S. Navy-which had never before used torpedoes on inland targets-went an enthusiastic "Well done...
...Inland Steel's President Clarence Randall rose before his stockholders in Chicago and raised a question which has been bothering many a businessman about the U.S. rearmament program. "Is what we are doing well conceived and well executed?" asked Randall. "Or are we going about it hit or miss...