Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...batch of more than 2,400 expected to enroll within a year, were ferried out to tiny, shuttle-shaped Hoffman Island in lower New York Bay for the first session of the new Merchant Marine Training School. Superintendent was smiling Lieut. Commander George Evans McCabe of the U. S. Coast Guard, an energetic expert in seacraft who will rate a salute from every man in the school (". . . and not with a sneer on his face, either"). Teachers will be six commissioned officers and 30 petty officers from the Coast Guard cutter service. For training ships the men will have...
...course of sprouts whisked up by the old Shipping Board during the War, the U. S. has never had a merchant-marine training school, has been far behind all other seafaring nations in this respect. Two additional branches are planned, one for the Gulf ports, another on the Pacific coast...
...pitched a no-hit, no-run game against Lockeport. Last week Alfred Kenney gained greater kudos. All summer he had been hearing about the sport-only a few years old in Nova Scotia-of catching giant bluefin tuna ("horse mackerel" to old salts) on rod & reel. Up the coast at Liverpool a Cuban team had just won this year's international tuna matches from a U. S. and a British team, in a tournament that fizzled sadly when some killer whales hanging off that harbor scared the big tuna away (or so Liverpudlians claimed) and only a few small...
Established as a cooperative string of broadcasting outlets, it soon added WLW (Cincinnati) to its list. Less than a year later the new network began picking up many stations in New England, the Midwest. When California's Don Lee Broadcasting System joined, it completed the MBS coast-to-coast stretch. Other stations joined singly and in groups to give MBS a 1938 collection of 107 outlets, all linked together on the cooperative profit-sharing basis. Since several of these are also affiliated with NBC or CBS, who have prior claims on their time for sponsored programs, it is often...
...officers of 1,500 leading U.S. plants, by last week their questionnaires had been filled-out by some 700. They showed: 1) inventories were subnormal in 64% of plants in the North Atlantic States, 65% in the Southern Atlantic States, 79% in the Middle West, 83% on the Pacific Coast; 2) wages were standing still; 3) business generally was down 30% from August 1937 but up 10% to 25% since June 1938; 4) employment increased from June to August in about twice as many places as it decreased; 5) 94% expected a gain in business activity, but there was little...