Word: inland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turn. In our usual wordy, ambiguous style, we deplored the explosive situation, and then we proudly detailed our successful attempt to bring all parties to the peace table. As our chief minister spoke into the microphones, I happened to glance over at the faces of the Inland team, gleaming in the bright lights, and from that moment on I knew what it was to feel both humiliation and fear...
...found my intuition had not failed me as I listened to Inland's chief minister speak. L heard him deny that he had ever agreed to a conference, and I waited with loathing while he announced his intention of continuing...
Tweet, Tweet. Unless the Communists sharply intensify the war, the U.S. strategy in coming months will be to press the fight at the borders and to find and destroy the main-force units inland. The tough First Air Cavalry and the 101st Division will become Westmoreland's mobile reserves, ready to meet major Communist moves anywhere in the country. The optimistic hope is that as inland areas become cleared and the remaining main-force units are pushed to the frontiers, the South Vietnamese will be capable of taking over and holding the territory against local guerrillas. Next year they...
...grandson of an Inland founder and son of a longtime chairman, Block worked at every end of the business from mill hand up. Elected president in 1953 (he became chairman in 1959), he strengthened Inland's tradition as a civic-minded company by playing a prominent part in the fight for Illinois' fair-employment law, pushing a redevelopment program for East Chicago and, in 1957, putting up Inland's 19-story glass-and-steel headquarters, one of the most striking additions to Chicago's Loop since the Depression...
Dominant Role. Inland is far from being a family company, but the Block clan, which owns less than 5% of the stock, has long played a dominant role in its fortunes. Chosen last week to succeed Joe Block was his cousin, Vice Chairman Philip D. Block Jr., 61, whose father was Inland's first president. Having worked so long in Joe's shadow, Phil is regarded as a chip off the old Block who will pretty much continue his predecessor's policies...