Word: inlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Created a War Shipping Administration (WSA) to control the operation, purchase, charter, requisition and use of all ocean vessels under the flag or control of the U.S. (except fighting ships and those engaged in coastwise, intercoastal and inland transportation). Purpose: to set up a shipping pool to serve military and economic strategy, i.e., to bring in rubber instead of tapioca. The new WSAdministrator: leathery, salty Rear Admiral Emory S. ("Jerry") Land, 63, head of the Maritime Commission...
Because the C.P.T. flying field falls within the restricted area extending the length of the Atlantic Coast and 30 miles inland, the permission to continue was granted conditionally. If civilian spotters attempting to account for all planes, are bewildered by these craft, the Harvard unit will have to move its center of activity inland to distant Haverhill...
...completion of the trip after six weeks of battling heat, malaria mosquitoes, and dangerous rapids, the party encounted dolphins more than 3,000 miles inland. Later they were ferried out of the interior by an airplane in less than 10 hours...
Last week the fleet was preparing to sail again, with non-Japanese crews. The fishermen themselves were going away. All Japanese men between 18 and 45, authorities announced, would be moved to inland work camps for the war's duration...
...male Japs in Baja California (except 55 kept under close surveillance to help the fishermen and keep their canneries running) were evacuated from the peninsula, deposited inland in the State of Jalisco and set to work farming...