Word: inlander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...horse, broke his leg, and settled down for life. Benjamin bought a hardware store, married a missionary's daughter, had four children. In 1888 the ambitious ex-sailor got a royal franchise from King Kalakaua to build a narrow-gauge railroad to haul sugar cane from inland Oahu down to the sea. Skeptics called it "Dillingham's Folly." But it was a huge success, became a key first step in the Dillingham family's development of the islands...
...earnings range from strong to sensational. Compared with last year's third quarter, Armco Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube more than doubled their profits; Republic's earnings were up 54% and Jones & Laughlin's an awesome 862%, to more than $7,000,000 in the quarter. Inland Steel raised its quarterly dividend from 400 to 450, the first dividend increase by a major steel company in two years. The industry's two biggest companies, U.S. Steel and Bethlehem, are also widely expected to report higher earnings...
...Boston College seismograph station in Weston described the tremor as "a slight earthquake lasting from five to ten seconds." The center of the disturbance was in Boston Harbor, and it was felt as far as about fifteen miles inland in Massachusetts and New Hampshire...
Goulart managed to wangle an invitation for Tito to visit the booming inland city of Belo Horizonte. But that, too, was canceled in disgust by the governor of Minas Gerais state when he heard that Yugoslav security men insisted on the arrest of every Serbian and Croatian refugee in town. In desperation, Goulart wound up driving Tito 130 sweltering miles to the raw and sprawling town of Goiania, a must on nobody's list-only to be greeted by a row of grim, silent priests, each holding a crucifix wrapped in black crape...
...started laying their plans last May. For a boat, they decided to expropriate an 85-ft. government lighthouse tender, the H-11, and quickly enlisted the aid of the captain. On the appointed night, while he sailed to the rendezvous, the escapees gathered in the southern swamps four miles inland near the Bay of Pigs, loaded food, water and clothing aboard two flatboats, then pushed off for the sea. Women and children rode on the boats; the men waded ahead, hacking a path through the man grove and bamboo thickets. It took five hours to get through the swamp. Both...