Word: seaboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...free-lance anthropologist named David I. Bushnell Jr., after long sifting of evidence and conferences with Dr. Hrdlicka and other experts, had completed preliminary maps tracing the west-east course of four great tribes. The Algonquion came from the northwest, skirted the Great Lakes, spread over the Atlantic seaboard from Labrador to North Carolina. Some turned south into Tennessee where they were stopped by a wave of Sioux pushing straight across the country from the southwest. From the southwest also came the Muskhogean and proto-Muskhogean peoples who trickled into the Gulf States (Choctaw, Creek, Chicksaw). From the Ozark Mountains...
...more than three weeks Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Air Line have been running two to five sections of their track trains to Florida. Eastern Air Transport was carrying twice as many passengers south as in 1933. In two weeks 63,000 passenger automobiles from other states poured into Miami. One day last week while blizzards were freezing the North 75,000 people baked on Miami Beach, three times the peak number reported in 1926. There, too, 45,000 visitors filled all available accommodations. In Tampa Barren Collier's hotels, Floridan and Tampa Terrace, were 85% full, reopened their...
...first thing he did was to stop cash dividends, pay in stock instead. Then he collected $8,915,000 in cash owed by an Ohio subsidiary, added $4,000,000 from the sale of an interest in the Seaboard Division to the Standard Oil of New Jersey, and $11,000,000 from earnings. By December 1932 bank loans had been cut $24,000,000. That year the company earned $17,204,000. Between January and June 1933 he paid off another $9,500,000 out of earnings. Last month two more subsidiaries each paid obligations...
...Atlantic seaboard Senators came out against ratification because tonnage would be diverted from their ports. For President Roosevelt, most painful disaffection of all was that of the two erstwhile loyal Senators from his home State, Messrs. Copeland and Wagner. Each was in favor of the power project section of the treaty, fondly fostered by Mr. Roosevelt when New York's Governor. But they remembered that New York has its own small Lakes-to-Atlantic waterway...
...fares cut more than one-half, net earnings nevertheless increased appreciably. With these heartening precedents, more than 1,000 lines west of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio and Potomac applied for and received from I. C. C. permission for a 2? rate effective Dec. 1, Southern and Seaboard Airline reduced to 1½?. These resurgent railroads happily announced that they can now carry passengers cheaper and faster than buses or private cars. Comparative fares...