Word: inlanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thomas R. Davis, enroute to the School of Public Health, said he plans to sail to Boston via the inland waterway. The 45-foot ketch docked late last night after a stormy trip from Morehead City...
...give executives a bigger incentive, many a company has permitted them to buy company stock below market price. Last month Chicago's Inland Steel Co., like some other corporations, set up the same stock option for its 19,000 eligible employees. It agreed to sell the stock for $42.25, which was 5% less (the maximum cut allowed Inland by the Salary Stabilization Board) than the open market price on Aug. 25. Employees were to pay for it in cash or payroll deductions. Last week Inland reported the plan had been a huge success; out of 250,000 shares offered...
...speaking possession in North America.*After nearly four backward centuries as an isolated British colony, the rugged North Atlantic island -the tenth and youngest Canadian province-is becoming industrialized. Its 361,000 hardy inhabitants, who once looked to the sea for a scant livelihood as cod fishermen, are turning inland to their mineral-rich mountains, their forests and power-packed waterfalls. With these resources, Newfoundland has launched a development program to balance its lopsided maritime economy, and change the sparse existence of its people for a fuller life...
...action in chancery court, the Inland Revenue claimed that an improperly dated agreement signed by the tenth Duke of Devonshire just before his death last year was void; instead of going to a nonprofit fund, and thus escaping death duties, the collection should go to swell the duke's other assets (to ?3,000,000). Since the 80% death duty on the whole estate would leave the family only ?600,000-less than the value of the collection alone-the heirs would have to sell the Chatsworth art and break up the collection. Said the court: "I cannot refrain...
...Netherlands that will bring Amsterdam's river traffic 25 miles and 20 hours closer to Germany. In the age-old competition for the rich river traffic, the sister port of Rotterdam, sitting near the North Sea, has always had the advantage. Now, with the opening of the largest inland navigation lock in Europe, and the completion of the canal which was first planned back in 1915, Amsterdam hopes to double its 23 million tons of shipping in the river. Despite the two-city rivalry, all The Netherlands celebrated, and Queen Juliana herself was at the helm of the first...