Word: inlanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kunu crossing, farthest inland and closest to the breakthrough zone, was the toughest. A 2nd Division regiment, commanded by Colonel Paul Freeman of Roanoke, Va., fought a rearguard action at Kunu to save as much as possible of an eight-mile vehicle train. Said the colonel: "We will go down the road on trucks, if we can. Otherwise we will destroy the trucks and go over the mountains, shooting backward every step of the way. We've gone through miracle after miracle, and we need one more...
...road along the front. On the east coast the Reds were stopped with the help of Allied airplanes and naval gunfire, from the cruiser Rochester and a destroyer. This week the South Koreans were again rapidly pushing toward the Red-held port of Chongjin. They also shoved a force inland to threaten the flank of the enemy units facing the U.S. 7th Division...
Imperfect World. In Baltimore, Chairman Gordon Fleet of the Maryland Game and Inland Fishing Commission and Lester Towner, member of the Maryland Board of Natural Resources, were each fined $25 for illegal hunting...
...Inland Steel Co.'s Board Chairman Edward L. Ryerson was fed up. He thought that there were too many politicians in Washington trying to blame the steel industry for the steel shortage. Last week at a meeting in Chicago of the American Society for Metals, Ryerson let go with a counterblast of his own: "For anyone to suggest that the steel industry should arbitrarily be required to increase its capacity by 20 to 30 million tons during the next two years ... is to suggest a program ... so unrealistic that it is sheer nonsense . . . Our industry is an early target...
...Ryerson, Wilson's complaint seemed downright ingratitude, especially since Inland will be expanding production 20% by 1952. "The automobile industry [which buys 20% of steel's total output] has no cause for complaint," he replied. "It has had steel enough to set production record after production record. It is the steel industry that made possible all the expansion in other industries." Nevertheless, if more steel users joined Charles Wilson in needling the steelmakers, steelmen might decide they could expand faster after...