Word: inlanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ACROSS the wind-blown plains of eastern Washington, up through the cool, forested hills of northern-Idaho and the mountains and finger valleys of western Montana, men talk in frontier terms of manifest destiny, and call their northwest U.S. land an Inland Empire. It is a towering land, with long, lonely reaches and stupendous, high-country scenery, proud, self-assured and close to its pioneer beginnings. A geographic unit, hemmed by natural barriers, it once almost became a state (as big as all New England, New York, Delaware and Maryland) called Lincoln. Congress approved in 1886, but Grover Cleveland pocket...
...logic of terrain still prevails: from the Rockies to the Cascades, the Inland Empire, which revolves around Spokane, is a trans-mountain stranger to the populous cities of coastal Washington and Oregon, to the potato farmers of south Idaho and to the ranchers of Montana's eastern plains. In lusty growth (its population has swelled by 51% since 1940), it is building new towns and industry on a solid base of natural treasures: rich grainland including the nation's top wheat-producing county (Whitman County, Wash.), lush wild-grass valleys providing year-round range for sheep and cattle...
While Saltonstall's voting record is not as good, he has served the Administration well in its battles with Republican isolationists of the inland states. On the whole, however, he has followed the Eastern Republican policy of talking internationalism while at the same time making cuts in foreign aid programs. Unlike Furcolo, he has followed projectionist principles in voting for import restrictions. Also, he has never supported extensive social and welfare legislation. In the last Congress, he voted to give the tidelands oil to the states, although Massachusetts would have benefited had the land remained under federal jurisdiction. Saltonstall also...
...largest tax reduction in history." The U.S. has been given "the strongest armed forces in our peacetime history" for less money. The Government has stopped roasting coffee, baking bread and making paint. It has stopped running a hotel. It has stopped running a tug and barge business on the inland waterways. It "has been returning to private citizens activities traditionally theirs...
...defense and only defense. This was so by Washington's orders. Quemoy's artillery, provided and munitioned by the U.S., could turn the island approaches into a bloody hell, but it could not effectively shell the mainland. The Nationalist air force could patrol the coast and reconnoiter inland, but it was forbidden to machine gun or bomb anything it might see. All this was U.S. insurance against mainland Nationalist "provacation" of the mainland Communists...