Word: inlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stop-gap arrangements were being hurried. The White House approved the building of wooden barges to carry crude oil on inland waterways from Florida. A House committee approved a bill for a pipeline from Florida's west coast to Jacksonville, another for improvement of a Florida barge canal. Harold Ickes announced that a beginning had been made on relocation of two existing pipelines, which would send an additional 25,000 barrels daily to the East by July 15. But real relief would be a major transportation operation-and that...
...brown blood of ships that could not be spared. Now oily hemorrhages spread on the flats of two great rivers. One of them was the St. Lawrence. Between its wildly beautiful banks, in the midriff of stubbornly isolationist Quebec, the German crept and waited. He nailed two ships in inland waters, and Quebec began searching its soul as it had never searched before...
...rest, seared and oil-blackened, went overside, were carried out into the Gulf, there picked up by a Coast Guard cutter. Only 14 of her 41 lived to tell how they were attacked, only a mile and a half off the mouth of the country's greatest inland waterway. The U.S. Navy, faced with a greater-challenge than it had met in domestic waters since 1812, knew that it could never stop the filtering of the U-boats through its line until it had destroyed them...
...incredible, bloody hours, American fighting men-marines, sailors, U.S. and Filipino soldiers-grappled for Corregidor. The island's death rattle could be heard far inland...
...shipped by tanker; now tankers would carry only a fraction of the load, and there was no way to fill the gap. The railroads, working valiantly, got last week's shipments up to 640,000 bbl. a day (see p. 73). Pipelines and inland waterways added only 175,000 bbl. a day. Until new transportation miracles could be performed, the East was out of luck. Even under this week's rationing system, the East will still use some 1,400,000 bbl. a day, including 250,000 bbl. a day required to replenish its low reserve stocks...