Word: inland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whaleboat pushed off for shore its engine sounded loud and the men instinctively bent low; each reasoned that it might lessen his chance of being seen in the inky blackness. Sixty yards offshore a white headlight seemed to spot the whaleboat for a minute. Then it shifted back inland. All hands flattened in the bottom of the boat. Then they heard the rumble of a freight train heading toward the tunnel that was their target for the night...
Like Author Bissell, Bill Joyce had some fancy schooling and a well-to-do father. When he reported for work on the towboat Inland Coal after being turned down by the Navy in 1942, he went aboard sardonically quoting from Moby Dick ("Call me Ishmael") at the tow-boat's second mate. But after he had finished his first year Joyce had river fever bad, had his sights set on a mate's job and even put river life above his girl. Of course he got the girl, wound up a pilot...
Next Question? In Washington, the Fish & Wildlife Service pondered a query that turned up in the mail: "How can I get help to open the overland cycle trade from the inland tide water of the Atlantic to the growth crest creedet of the Pacific? I discovered the oval location of growth...
Although union leaders have fought bitterly to impose such noncontributory pensions on management, do the rank & file of unionists really want them? Last month the same C.I.O. steelworkers who had struck last fall for noncontributory pensions at Inland Steel Co. got a choice of a noncontributory plan and one in which they would contribute a small portion (never more than 4%) of their weekly salaries. By a vote of 3 to 1, Inland workers accepted the contributory plan. One reason: under the contributory plan, workers would get a vested interest, and most of them would get bigger pensions...
...Amherst. In July 1816, William Amherst reached the North China coast. He was most hopeful, as his secretary later recorded, that "the eclat of an embassy from the Crown of England" would persuade "Oriental barbarism" to grant commercial privileges. But the high & mighty mandarins who escorted him ashore and inland to Peking soon demolished his hope...