Word: inlanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shattuck graduate from the Law School in 1904 and holds the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Williams College and from National University of Inland...
From Sioux City downstream 100 miles to Omaha, men fought a desperate battle against the mighty, muddy Missouri River. Like a huge inland tidal wave, 20 miles long and moving at a speed of nine miles an hour, the flood crest smashed at banks and levees, swallowed up great stretches of fertile farmland and laid siege to half-empty towns and cities, holding out behind their sandbag barricades (see NEWS IN PICTURES). The critical point last week came at the narrow channel between Omaha and Council Bluffs, where a levee and flood wall system was designed to keep the river...
...integrations of abstruse equations, he ranged over Greenland's great icecap, checking the observations of scientists who had made the trip in person. In Nature magazine, Dr. Nye reports his findings. Greenland, he concludes, is probably a mountain range rising from the sea, surrounding a vast, frozen, inland lake...
Still smarting that night, Inland Steel's President Clarence B. Randall spoke for the seized companies over another radio and TV hookup. He hit back as hard as he had been hit. He disputed Truman's "shocking distortion of facts" up & down the line. Cried Randall: Truman has "transgressed his oath of office ... abused the power which is temporarily his ... seized the private property of one million people without the slightest shadow of legal right . . . This evil deed, without precedent in American history, discharges a political debt to the C.I.O. . . Phil Murray now gives Harry Truman a receipt...
...main argument used by the oil interests in killing the O'Mahoney-Hill bill of the Administration, which provided that federal government retain control of the "tidelands" and give revenue from oil leases to education, was that this would give the government control over rivers, harbors, and other inland waters...