Word: seaboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...potato farmers, bitter when they think what AAA has done for cotton, for tobacco, even for such a "basic commodity" as peanuts; two railroads eager for potato traffic; a Secretary of State devoted to foreign trade; three great potato regions -Idaho, Maine and the South Atlantic Seaboard-and three great potato statesmen...
Bound for Florida, Mrs, Alfred Emanuel Smith was standing in a compartment on the Seaboard Air Liner Orange Blossom Special, when the train rounded a curve near Richmond, lurched, threw her heavily against a window ledge. Her husband summoned a doctor who treated her hastily, told her she could go on. Twenty-four hours later, suffering "from a broken arm and nervous shock. Mrs. Smith bedded herself in a West Palm Beach hospital, stayed there four days...
...Aboard Seaboard Air Line...
...automobile thieves in their beds. Surprised instead were police when they found the pair waiting with submachine guns in their hands. After the desperadoes had shot their way free, two women whom they had left behind confessed that one of the men was Alvin Karpis. Up & down the Atlantic seaboard flashed the order: "Shoot on sight...
...safety and convenience of men, little has been done to dispel the danger and delay inherent in fog. In 1935 it is still the rule, when fog blinds land and sea, to stand and wait until it clears. Last fortnight a great white pall closed in on the Atlantic seaboard, spread over the U. S. as far west as Iowa and Nebraska. When it lifted last week it had lasted four days, the worst since the five...