Word: inlanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reporters laughed, and Gabrielson, after thinking over his words, joined in. For Democrat McCarran, during his 18 years in the Senate, had been about as fond of New and Fair Deal medicines as Carrie Nation was of bourbon. Before the 1938 primaries, when F.D.R. himself went inland to have his say on candidates, he visited Nevada, but haughtily ignored McCarran's candidacy for renomination; McCarran had angrily fought too many New Deal measures. Shaggy Pat won anyway, went back to the Senate to cry out against aid to embattled France and Britain ("One American...
...globe, the Aleutians might look like neat steppingstones from Asia up to the North American continent's front door, islands to be defended one by one. But the steppingstones had to be seen. The globe, for instance, did not show the masses of empty tundra stretching inland from the western coast like sloshy, moldy pudding. No map could hint the subzero temperatures that could cripple an army, taunt it with frostbite, hold it to a mile-a-day advance through roadless mountains and plains...
...left the prisoners, and went inland along a new road which a tank had just smashed out of a rubble-heaped path. I caught up with the tank just in time to see its 105 fire two rounds point-blank into a deep cave. A muffled series of explosions rumbled inside the cave, which had been used to store ammunition...
...local capital, pro motes, designs and operates the hotels for a fixed fee plus a cut (up to 25%) of the profits. Chief arranger, money-raiser and promoter for the company is President Wallace Whittaker, 58, who joined I.H.C. after 18 years as general manager of General Motors' Inland (rubber & plastic products) Division. Chief operator is Byron Calhoun, 48, a one-time bellhop who became part owner of Minneapolis' Radisson Hotel (he sold...
...began a program of rigorous preflight training in a handful of universities, with ground studies and physical conditioning. He set up a number of inland centers for primary training, most of them hundreds of miles from tidewater. Some of his airmen got their first carrier practice on the Great Lakes, on bizarre training carriers converted from paddle-wheel steamers. In two years he was turning out 20,000 superbly trained pilots annually...