Word: inlander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where they would make the ritual seven circuits around the shrouded monument and enter to kiss the Black Stone handed down by the Angel Gabriel to Abraham. If they took time to notice, they might have detected a change in the air. Along the six-lane highway that leads inland to Mecca from the Red Sea port of Jiddah, pilgrims were ministered to by mobile hospitals, reservoirs of ice water, and troops of Moslem Boy Scouts. In the capital of Riyadh, lights burned late in the massive ministries along the main, four-lane boulevard, and a Saudi businessman rejoiced...
Main purpose of all four dams is to fend off the sea and its damaging flood tides. But with the salt water blocked off, the estuaries will slowly fill up with fresh water from the rivers. By means of five smaller dams farther inland, the sweet water can be sluiced northward into the Rotterdam Waterway. The waterway provides ocean-going vessels with access to The Netherlands' greatest port, but, in the process, also allows salt water to pass far inland, damaging surrounding farmlands. In effect, the five smaller dams of the Delta Plan will be used to hose...
...tribal chief and set it up as a haven for destitute freed slaves from England. The British thoughtfully provided the new settlers with a boatload of white British prostitutes to get the population under way. In 1808 Sierra Leone formally became a British colony, and rule was gradually pushed inland to embrace the indigenous tribes as well. The British discovered diamonds in Sierra Leone's river beds in 1930, and the nation now supplies one-fourth of the world's diamonds to the great De Beers diamond trust...
...nation's steelmakers showed up just as poorly. U.S. Steel's earnings plummeted to 47? v. $1.97 in the first quarter of 1960, when they were making up for strike-lost business. Jones & Laughlin dropped to 28? v. $2.22 a year ago; Inland Steel slid to 46? v. $1.07, and Bethlehem Steel reported the lowest earnings for a nonstrike period since 1945: 14?, as against 1960's first-quarter earnings of $1.10 a share. "We had a bad first quarter," said Bethlehem's President Edmund F. Martin, "but production is up this month, and we expect...
...mass uprising failed to take place, and the tide of rebellion ran out. The airstrip at Jagüey Grande was seized, but when the first rebel B-26 came in to land, it hit unexpected ridges of sand that had drifted across the runway, and crashed. Paratroopers, dropped inland, were wiped out-few prisoners were taken. The invaders from the beach never quite reached Jagüey Grande. Obviously forewarned of the general area where the landing would take place ("Someone committed treason," charged a council member), Castro had 10,000 troops on hand to meet the men coming...