Word: inlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troops scheduled to be abroad by July, the U.S. felt safer than it had since the war began. As evidence that the best defense is still attack, the Army and Navy began emptying men from U.S. coastal defenses, to ship them overseas. The Army ended all inland practice blackouts. Coastal areas henceforth will be "alerted" only on Sundays, no oftener than once every three months...
...Major General T. M. Robins, Army engineer, read the first Somervell order. Said he: a few barges from U.S. inland waters could easily transport ten times the oil to Canada with one-tenth the cost and effort. When no one paid any attention to his comments, General Robins followed orders and went to work...
...dead, buried eleven Japs, seized the settlement's grass huts, coconut groves, rubber plantations (the first recovered from the Japs), an unused air strip. Then they fanned out, trapping Jap patrols who were skirmishing with Australians some 60 miles down the coast. With an Australian column poised inland in the Ramu Valley, they set up a two-pronged threat to Madang, the next important Jap base northwest of Finsch-haven. One day last week General MacArthur's fliers plastered the Madang area with 243 tons of high explosive. The next Allied landing might strike that way-the most...
...masters, stored in inland safety since Pearl Harbor, began returning to Manhattan museum walls. Bellicose Fiorello LaGuardia, who heretofore had enjoyed an air raid alert as much as a fire, lamely justified the relaxation: "I don't say [Hitler's] not coming over, but I'm sure he cannot come with enough to aim at the pictures and hit the mark...
...Germans moved their fighter defenses farther and farther inland, the long-range fighters began to look pretty good to the bomber pilots...