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...Inland has built up a large deposit of good will in its area. Many little consumers, told by other steel companies to "call Inland" for their small orders, have grown larger-and stayed with Inland. By encouraging its executives to participate in civic affairs and all employees to take advantage of a corporate education program-half of its 30,000 employees do, at company expense-Inland has developed an excellent community image that impresses local customers. The company recognizes, of course, that it cannot meet its challenge from the East with good will alone. It is spending $125 million this...
Pricing Advantage. In the midst of the scramble sits the only major steel company with its headquarters and entire production facilities in the Chicago area: Inland Steel. The smallest of the industry's Big Eight, Inland has long benefited from its proximity to Midwest steel consumers. Sixty percent of its output is sold within 100 miles of Chicago, and practically none is shipped more than 400 miles away. This provides Inland with pricing and delivery-time advantages over distant Eastern mills, and has contributed to its enviable earnings record. The company was eighth in steel production during the first...
...Incredibly Complex." The landings continued throughout the morning as the troops pushed inland to seize assigned objectives...
...Spanish marines were deployed. High atop a yellow cliff, a Spanish admiral looked down at the smooth flow of men and machines and termed it "an incredibly complex, perfectly organized and flawless operation." It was not entirely flawless. Marine Lieut. Colonel James B. Ord, at an inland command post, noted a column of smoke twisting over pine trees on the horizon. Grumbled Ord: "Some damn fool started a forest fire. I hope they get it out quickly." Then his walkie-talkie man reported: "Two helicopters have collided and crashed." The H-34 choppers, carrying 22 men, had smashed together some...
...perfectly fossilized bones are remains of Paleoparadoxia ("Ancient contradiction"), an amphibious mammal bigger than a rhinoceros that wallowed in the shallows 15 to 20 million years ago when California's Coast Ranges had not yet risen and the site of inland Palo Alto was still under the sea. Paleoparadoxia belongs to a long-extinct order, the desmostylians, which lived the lives of saltwater hippopotamuses around the shores of the North Pacific. It was first found in Japan, but the Palo Alto skeleton is the only one found in North America...