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...States, 22 have direct access to tidewater. Busy though far inland are such U. S. ports as Houston, Tex., 50 miles from the Gulf of Mexico; Portland, Ore., 112 miles, and Seattle, Wash., 143 miles from the Pacific; New Orleans, 107 miles from the mouth of the Mississippi...
They retreated gradually inland and have been pursued by the Dictator's forces hither and thither for approximately 2,000 miles through seven provinces ending with Kansu where they now are, still unconquered. In many of these provinces the original local Chinese authorities were more or less at outs with Dictator Chiang, but, after they had been attacked by the Red armies and either badly frightened or overcome, they greeted the arrival of the Generalissimo's troops with unwonted enthusiasm...
...Inland Steel's earnings of $3,788,000 were the largest for any third quarter in the company's history...
...Swing Your Lady, the authors of Sailor, Beware! have gone about as far inland as they possibly could-to Joplin, Mo.-for a locale. When Joe Skopapoulos is instructed to put out his tongue for medical inspection, it is also necessary to instruct him to retract it when the examination is over. His entourage can converse without letting him understand what they say by spelling crucial words. When they want him to be amused, they invite him to "sit down and read the pictures." Broke and stranded, Joe's manager signs him to wrestle Sadie. Joe. who likes women...
Longtime tropical friends, both railroad and Fruit Company were given sway in Central America by the same man-the late, great imperialist, Minor Cooper Keith. In 1871 Keith went to the pestilential coast town of Limon in Costa Rica to build a railroad inland. In ten years he was $1,000,000 in the hole with 70 miles built and 4,000 men dead of malaria and yellow fever. To give the railroad something to haul he started to plant bananas at about the time people started eating them in the U. S. He finished that rail road, built others...