Word: inland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Emergency. In seaside Beeston Regis, England, parishioners petitioned the council to start a fund for moving the church inland before the sea washes it away, a date set by erosion experts...
Joseph C. Knox, secretary of the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission will discuss water pollution in inland and tidal waters at 7:30 p.m. tonight at a meeting of the Conservation Society in the Lowell House Tower Room. This is the fifth in a series of programs sponsored by the society...
...Commerce Department began steaming out of the riverboat business as fast as it could go. Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer welcomed bids for the Government-owned, World War I-spawned Inland Waterways Corp., which operates a fleet of some 260 freight barges and 21 towboats on the Mississippi, Missouri and Warrior Rivers. Though the corporation hauled a record 2,900,000 tons of cargo in fiscal 1949, it lost $1,065,000, has not shown a profit in a decade. Last week, a syndicate of 14 private companies offered to lease the barge lines but made no bid for Inland...
Most notable Surinamers are the 20,000-odd Bush Negroes, whose ancestors rebelled at plantation slavery and fled inland centuries ago. Tall and agile, they range the rivers in dugout canoes and carry on indifferent agriculture in burned-over clearings. This week, having paid his respects to Paramaribo and looked over the Moengo bauxite mines, Prince Bernhard prepared for a launch trip up the muddy Surinam River to powwow with the barrel-chested Bush-Negro chieftains...
Commerce has jurisdiction over nine watertight bureaus: Patents, Census, Foreign & Domestic Commerce, Coast & Geodetic Survey, Weather, Civil Aeronautics Administration, Public Roads, Standards, and Inland Waterways, which runs the world's biggest barge line (the Federal Barge Lines on the Mississippi and its tributaries) and whose pride and joy is the new towboat, Harry Truman...