Word: inlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Province, where by a series of explosive sallies it made the Jap's life miserable. It shook his hold from the eastern railroad net, sliced a big piece out of the vital Chekiang-Kiangsi railway he had spent so much blood to win. From Shensi Province in the inland north to Kwangtung on the southeast coast it snatched villages from the invaders. It lost others, but always it fought...
...years East and West Coast races have taken the wind out of the sails of inland yachting. The annual Newport-to-Bermuda and biennial Los Angeles-to-Hawaii races made all inland thrashes seem like a swan-boat ride in Boston's Public Garden. This year, with all coastwise races called off, Great Lakes sailors are rubbing their horny palms. At last their beloved Chicago-to-Mackinac race, scheduled for this weekend, is the No. 1 offshore event of the year...
...Making the Mackinac" (pronounced mackinaw) is the dream of every inland yachtsman. Not only is it the world's longest fresh-water race (331 miles as the duck paddles), but according to old salts it is no less hazardous than the longer, more spectacular ocean races. In 35 thrashes to Mackinac since 1904, no lives have been lost, but enough boats have been disabled to give the affair a fearsome reputation. One year only eight of 42 starters reached the finish line. Often the winning boat takes nearly four days. Once an all-female crew took two weeks...
This Saturday some 30 thirty-footers (and over) will answer the gun for this year's tussle with Lake Michigan's temperamental airs. Many an old reliable will be missing. But inland sailors will get a squint at four formidable newcomers recently purchased in the East: Falcon, last of the famed Marblehead Q Boats; Barquita and Gentian, a pair of New York 32s; and Onaway, designed by famed Designers Sparkman & Stephens...
Home owners were less enthusiastic over the policies, particularly in inland sections where bombing seems doubly unlikely; but mortgage holders were getting set to put the heat on them to sign up regardless. Whether lenders had any right to demand such protection was a doubtful legal question. In England the mortgage holder has to share the premium costs on domestic war-damage protection...