Word: inland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration seems in no mood to come to the rescue. How much help such moves would be to the Youngstown area is questionable. The iron ore and coking coal deposits that originally drew mills to the Mahoning valley have long since been mined out, and the inland complex can no longer compete with steel centers boasting deep-water ports. Youngstown's days as the nation's steeliest steel city seem to be over...
Worse news soon came from Johannesburg, 300 miles inland. A three-year-old boy admitted to Baragwanath Hospital for heart surgery had his operation postponed for five weeks until he was cured of a stubborn case of pneumonia. But after surgery he again developed pneumonia, and analysis of the guilty bacteria proved them to be similar to those identified in Durban. They were astonishingly resistant to penicillin and also to many newer antibiotics. In the boy's case, the hardy new pneumococci finally succumbed to combined doses of rifampin and fusidic acid, but doctors noted that he was already...
...cameramen postured and scurried before them like the fiddler crabs that live in the marsh. Amidst the dust swirling up to the whirling blades of police helicopters hovering above, the demonstrators poured over the parking lot. They clapped and cheered as they saw a second line of demonstrators moving inland from the sea like a slow subway train. Stopping about every 70 yards, they seeded their path with Indian corn. A third group, coming from the north, made a stone walkway across the marsh, scattering the rocks after they had passed in order to leave no mark...
...project's detractors are many. The Army Corps of Engineers now estimates Tenn-Tom will return only 87? for every dollar spent. The chief cargo on the inland waterway would be coal carried by barges. According to one official of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, which is suing to stop construction, "the money this is costing would let us haul all the coal of western Kentucky for 500 years for free." Argues another observer: "If nature gave this country the Mississippi River, there is no reason the Corps of Engineers can't do the same thing and call...
...system. They also offered to establish a joint fleet that would have enabled them to dominate all of China's waters, coastal and inland. As a matter of fact, the Chairman agreed to the last proposal, but only on the condition that the Chinese pay for such a system. Chairman Mao told Khrushchev, "This is a matter of principle: otherwise you'll take every thing away...