Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sullivan's beaver-busy wreckers worked to clear the inner harbor, so ships could maneuver inside Manila's sea wall. After that they would move on, to tidy some other grisly graveyard. Danger was their business - Sullivan had picked some of his veterans out of the New York fire department. He had trained all his officers and 150 of his men to be divers, at the Pier 88 salvage school and in the dank holds of the capsized Normandie three years ago. Their graduate work had been done in the choked harbors of Casablanca and Oran, at Salerno...
Last week science promised motorists another postwar boon: synthetic inner tubes that will hold air ten times as long as natural rubber, will need to be inflated only three or four times a year, and will run on nicely for miles after a puncture...
Japan's war lords were forced to tip their hand last week. Faced by hard military realities, they revealed one of the major strategic decisions of World War II: to cut their losses in "Greater East Asia" and withdraw into a kind of Asiatic inner fortress, there to concentrate their strength against the blows which they knew would soon fall. Thus, in effect, they confessed the bankruptcy of the imperial venture they had launched three and a half years ago at Pearl Harbor...
...Questions. Meanwhile the enemy would bolster his inner fortress, comprising Japan proper, Korea, Manchuria and North China. Two questions stood out: 1) how much of North China would Japan try to hold? and 2) how far would the enemy's altered strategy dictate revisions in Allied strategy...
Allied forces were already at the gate opening onto the "sacred soil." It was a wide gate, and Allied strategists could either keep to the right, through the islands, or develop a second lane on the left, through the Shanghai area. Both would lead to the inner fortress...