Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Netherlands destroyer Isaac Sweers, the small British aircraft carrier Avenger (a Lend-Lease converted U.S. merchant ship), three British destroyers, five other small vessels and two ex-U.S. Coast Guard cutters, the Walney and Hartland, which, licked by flames, crashed through a boom at Oran into the inner harbor and landed troops before they sank...
Closely related to it is isoprene (also called methyl butadiene). Although isoprene is the basic unit in natural rubber, it is useless by itself. But when isobutylene and isoprene are polymerized together the result is Standard Oil's butyl, tough, very elastic, now favored for inner tubes. It is to be made at a rate of 100,000 tons a year...
...Automobile and motorcycle taxes dropped from $5,000,000 to $338,000; on tires and inner tubes they fell from...
...Chios, Samos and Mytilene (where Sappho was born). After a trip from Smyrna on a Turkish steamer past the islands, Correspondent Ray Brock concluded: "The entire Near East is probably secure [from Axis attack] until the spring of 1943. . . . The enemy, from Rhodes in the Mediterranean to the vital inner Aegean bases, is probably more vulnerable to Allied sea and air attacks than since . . . the spring of 1941. . . . Informed sources . . . talk confidently of the spring of 1943 as the time of the Allied blow to regain Aegean footholds as jumping-off places for an invasion of the Balkans...
...Bourgeois Without Honor. Georges Bernanos rode in the French Cavalry in World War I, receiving a chest wound and a Croix de Guerre. With the French dead of that war he kept up an inner dialogue during the 20 years in which the hopes they had died for-a true democracy, a true peace-came to nothing. He saw France's elite, her smart coteries and politicians, mock the victory which the common men of France had won by selflessness and discipline. What was the essential weakness of the French ruling class? Bernanos calls it a lack of honor...