Word: inlander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steel, kingfish in the heavy industry pond, voluntarily began signing contracts with C. I. O.'s Steel Workers Organizing Committee (TIME, March 15). The small fry of the steel industry rapidly followed suit. Only possible obstacles to complete organization of Steel were the major independents, Bethlehem, Crucible, Inland, Jones & Laughlin, Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, National, American Rolling Mill. Fortnight ago the storm broke over them with a brief 36-hour strike in Jones & Laughlin, which was settled when the management agreed to stake all on a labor election to determine by majority vote whether...
...groups had to be decimated to increase the other three to war-time strength for maneuvers. If the United States were attacked today on two different fronts, we couldn't defend both of them. We'd have to make a choice. We lack flyers and flying machines . . . inland air bases and a good deal of equipment...
...General Headquarters Air Force-430 officers, 2,500 men, 244 planes, divided into attacking and defending armadas, had begun to bomb the horned toads and rattlesnakes off the desert bed of Muroc Dry Salt Lake in inland California...
Left behind at Langley Field, Va. when the GHQ Air Force flew to California, four of the Army's four-engined Boeing "flying fortresses" made a surprise Sunday flight of 1,700 mi., north to Augusta, Me., inland to Rochester, N. Y. and return, with empty bomb racks but full machine-gun crews and equipment...
...years ago some 60 men of God who had gone through the World War founded the Chaplains Association of the Army of the U. S. They drew up a constitution providing for annual conventions in Washington. When the trip to the nation's capital proved too costly for inland chaplains (only eight turned up at one gathering), the chaplains nullified their constitution, met where they pleased. Last week in Chicago gathered the largest chaplains' convention to date, 226 men of 26 denominations in 40 States...