Word: inland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francisco International, Kimes decided to head instead for Travis Air Force Base, some 40 miles to the southwest, which had a longer runway (11,000 ft. v. 9,700 ft. at San Francisco International). As gently as possible, he put the plane into a right turn and headed inland over Golden Gate Bridge. For the first time since takeoff ("I waited until I was fairly sure we could stay in the air"), Kimes spoke to his passengers over the plane's intercom system. Said he: "We have a minor problem, ladies and gentlemen. Well, maybe...
...Sailors. Strangest of South Viet Nam's services is the navy, whose duty it is to patrol 1,000 miles of cove-pocked coastline and almost 3,500 miles of inland waterways-rivers, creeks, canals, irrigation ditches and tidal bayous. In the flat, checkered Mekong Delta, waterways have been the main routes of travel for centuries. The 9,000 officers and men of South Viet Nam's navy keep these arteries open with 600 curious vessels, ranging from sampans and junks to converted landing craft. Armed with 20-and 40-mm. cannon, heavy machine guns, even...
...million ore-concentrating plant, the first of its kind in Europe, at Rotterdam's Europoort industrial complex. By converting 15 million tons a year of ore from West Africa, South America, Canada and Scandinavia into 5,000,000 tons of concentrated pellets and barging it to inland mills, the combine expects to cut 20% off the cost of ore delivered to Ruhr furnaces. To keep their markets, the Germans feel they must put competitive prices ahead of national pride; 51% of German steel is exported either as a commodity or in such products as machinery...
South Vietnam has 1000 miles of seacoast, most of it so indented that only local fisherman know it with any degree of intimacy. This 1000 miles does not include the inland waterway navigable by sampans, which in the case of the Mekong Delta alone in 4700 miles. The South Vietnamese Navy's Junk Patrol, primarily responsible for preventing infiltration by sea, has 500 boats. Since 40 per cent of any fleet is tied up in ports for repairs, re-provisioning, liberty, training, etc., the Junk Patrol would have about 300 boats to patrol more than 6000 miles of coast...
...waters of South Viet Nam's east coast swept the slim destroyers of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, searching out Viet Cong concentrations with their hard-hitting 5-in. guns. In half a dozen operations, naval artillery socked more than 370 rounds onto targets as deep as four miles inland. The big rifles proved effective: sharpshooting by the U.S.S. Somers broke the back of a Communist assault on a district headquarters in Binh Thuan province, killing twelve and wounding...