Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Inner Waters. If the U.S. target for the next invasion was the Philippines, there was still one major area in which the Japs first had to be beaten groggy. That was the island chain stretching south from the homeland through the Ryukyus and Formosa to Luzon, and the sheltered waterway lying behind the islands through the East and South China Seas...
...back and his khaki shirt newly starched, had entertained his staff aboard his flagship at a predated Thanksgiving dinner. For an hour or so, life had seemed calm and leisurely. But there was no leisure or slow movement now. Bull Halsey whipped his forces through the enemy's inner waters with the speed and precision he had first shown long ago as a pint-sized fullback at Annapolis...
...Soviet theater differs from ours in almost every respect. The most important difference is its inner structure. Twenty-five years ago, Lenin signed a decree declaring that henceforth all theatrical property in the country would be State property. Now, a quarter of a mellowing century later, the final effect of this decree is that Russian theaters are run very much like private enterprises on a box-office basis-but with this important difference: there can be no such thing as a "turkey" in Moscow. At the moment all Moscow theaters are making money; but if anything went wrong with...
...another vital factor will make the going tougher: as Allied forces reach Japan's inner fortress, they will come up against Jap armies which will be in a position to throw in reserves. On isolated Pacific islands. U.S. naval power cut off all hope of reinforcement. On big islands like Luzon, and in China and Japan, the enemy will be able to make good his initial losses and greatly prolong the fight...
Ships Too. As Japan is pushed into her Inner defense citadel, her supply lines become shorter. Navy Under-Secretary Ralph Bard said last fortnight that Japan may even have a shipping surplus now to transport the leavings of her once-great Empire traffic. But not even the shortest supply lines can withstand the loss of about 600 small and large ships which the Empire suffered in September. Most of Japan's losses occurred in the Philip pines, where Mitscher's flyers sank 205 vessels of all sizes, damaged over 200 more...