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...next four decades became one of the U.S. Army's most decorated military engineers. During World War II he supervised construction of the famed Ledo Road, a military supply lane stretching through 478 miles of Asian mountains, jungles and swampland, thereby opening an overland link between India and China. Though officially retired, Wheeler was recalled to service by the U.N. following the 1956 Israeli-Egyptian war and, at age 71, directed a multinational salvage crew that within four months cleared the Suez Canal of more than 40 sunken ships...
...more important issue is not who gets the taxes but who gets the oil. Because a pipeline from western Canada feeds the U.S. but no pipelines directly serve eastern Canada, it has been cheaper for the East to import oil by sea from Venezuela and the Middle East than overland from the West. But rising import costs are making western oil economical in the East, and by the end of 1975, a pipeline extension will supply the East directly. When it opens up, western leaders would like to continue selling to the U.S., if only because it would provide...
Stagecoach. (1939) John Ford's immortal study of character types among the passengers on an overland stage under Indian attack. Thomas Mitchell, John Wayne, Claire Trevor...
Along with twelve other captured farmhands, Munoz was taken to Miami Airport and flown to the nearest point in Mexico, which happened to be the Yucatan peninsula-600 miles across the Gulf of Mexico and about 1,200 miles overland from Texas...
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