Word: beaching
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Three other Ford appeals from NLRB decisions remained in lower courts: the same discrimination issue in cases at Dallas and Buffalo; and a Long Beach, Calif, case in which the issue is a company union...
...within the defense area there are three natural landing places: Lingayen Gulf, Batangas Bay, Manila Bay. On a map, Lingayen Gulf looks Manila like a setup-a broad, sheltered stretch of water with good beaches and roads leading directly down to the heart of the defense area at Manila. But there is trouble for an invader here. The water is shallow and only the small outriggers can use the gulf's shores. To land at Lingayen an enemy would have to anchor two or three miles offshore, lighter his troops to the beach. Once ashore, he would find that...
...near Manila. But from the beachhead the roads pass through slits in the mountains, cross deep defiles over bridges that could be destroyed. And, since it is closer to the capital, a heavy defending force could quickly be moved south to fend off attack at the beach itself...
Died. Brigadier General Frederic E. Humphreys, retired, 57, first Army officer to fly solo in a military plane (at College Park, Md., Oct. 26, 1909); after a heart attack; in Miami Beach...
Died. Carleton Ellis, 64, chemical inventor who held some 750 patents, more than any other American except Thomas Edison and John O'Connor; of influenza; in Miami Beach. Chemist Ellis' inventions gave birth to more than 100,000 compounds. He developed Standard Oil's tube-&-tank process of cracking oil, found the formula for cheap acetone to fireproof airplane wings in World War I, made plastics an exact and lucrative science...