Word: inlanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philippines after graduation from West Point, and saw his first battle action in brushes with the Moros. Spent a year as an aide to his father's good friend, President Theodore Roosevelt, in 1907. He went on the U.S. expedition which seized Veracruz, Mexico in 1914, and scouted inland disguised as a hobo. When the U.S. entered World War I, MacArthur, then a major on staff duty, conceived the idea of a "Rainbow Division of National Guard troops from different states; though his superiors were hesitant to send National Guardsmen to France, he went over their heads, sold...
...Extend the North American seacoast by 8,000 miles, transforming such cities as Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and Toronto into deepwater ports, where inland shipyards could be located in wartime...
...Provide a low-cost inland route for shipment of iron ore to Midwest steel mills from the rich new deposits being developed in Labrador...
...19th Century observer reported Inishmurray poteen flowing "extensively over the whole seaboard from Sligo to Bundoran and even to a considerable distance inland." In 1893, a detachment of Royal Irish constabulary was quartered there for revenue duty, but in later years, news of police visits usually reached King Michael in time for the great stone jugs of poteen to be hidden in the island's shallow lake. Once sentenced to pay a ?50 fine or spend six months in jail for poteen-making, King Michael said: "I would have paid ?10, but they would not make...
Market Needed. Kitimat's position will enable Alcan to bring in bauxite and other raw materials by sea, and to ship out the finished aluminum. The nearby network of lakes and rivers will be dammed to form a 500-sq.-mi inland sea. Its waters will be drained off into two ten-mile tunnels through the mountains to produce an estimated 1,600,000 horsepower of cheap electricity for the Kitimat factory...