Word: inlanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Talking directly to the seaway's opponents, "certain railroads and port interests," Truman warned that Canada would charge-tolls of U.S. ships, perhaps even after the cost of the seaway had been paid off. He argued that an inland (i.e., submarine-proof) route to bring iron ore from Labrador to U.S. steel mills was "of great importance to our national security." Said he: "No great nation has ever deliberately abandoned its interest in any of the vital waterways of the world...
Cradled between the northern Rockies and the Cascades is a vast area-eastern Washington and parts of Montana, Idaho and Oregon-which natives like to call the Inland Empire. Bigger than New England, it is rich in wheat, minerals, apples, lumber, scenery-and atom-bomb works. The-chief bellringer and arbiter for the empire is the Spokane Spokesman-Review, a newspaper which President Truman in one of his cocky moods once paired with Bertie McCormick's Chicago Tribune as "worst" in the country...
...Beyond that, there is only a casual resemblance between the papers. The Review is neither so skillfully written nor so brightly edited as the Tribune, and typographically it still wears high-button shoes. The source of its journalistic power is that, like the Trib, it fusses over its inland empire like a hen on eggs-and covers the empire as efficiently...
...determined to get their man, dug up an 1842 tax law which says that six months means six lunar months. This would have defeated Wilkie but Judge Sir Terence Norbert Donovan ruled the 1842 law out of date. Britain's Solicitor General Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, for the Inland Revenue Commissioners, then argued that an old general rule of law states that fractions of days shall be treated as whole days. Thus, both June 2 and Dec. 2 counted as full days, and, for their purposes, Wilkie had been in England altogether 184 days. The judge nipped that...
...reinforcement. Meanwhile, in the light of the destroyer's star shells, the South Korean infantrymen cut down the attackers, dug in and held. At dawn the cruiser lifted its fire from the target hill, and hands on deck watched airplanes from the carrier Bon Homme Richard buzz inland to hit the enemy with napalm and rockets...