Word: seaboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ogden Livingston Mills, outgoing U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, already a director of National Biscuit, took a seat on the board of Seaboard...
...beheld a long smoky line of ships smudging the Pacific horizon. Cut off from the world, few of the lepers knew that they were sighting the U. S. Scouting Force, assembled in Hawaiian waters to begin the Navy's annual war games. Normally based on the Atlantic seaboard, the armada was in Pacific waters for the second successive year. Economy had been the Navy's explanation for not sending the Scouting Force home. Japan urbanely ignored any darker reason...
...been my aim to keep well within the bounds of reasonable possibility and not to sacrifice reality for dramatic effect. It would have been easy, for example, to bring the Japanese battle fleet to Hawaii or even to the American seaboard. I might even have conveyed whole Japanese Army corps to San Francisco and allowed them to overrun the Pacific slope. But to do so would have been to expose the narrative to the well-merited ridicule of informed critics...
...next thrust himself into the picture with a plan for a semicircular belt system connecting New England and Baltimore, to distribute Midwestern products to seaboard. This again stepped on too many toes. He was ordered to sell his interest in the Wabash (now in receivership) and Lehigh Valley, which he did, to the Pennsylvania, at $23,000,000 clear profit...
...ends of the U. S. Atlantic seaboard are rising, while the middle falls. Portland, Me. and Charleston. S. C. gain 7 to 15 in. elevation in a century. Boston. New York, Atlantic City, Philadelphia and Baltimore subside 3.5 to 11.5 in. a century. Key West seems stationary. The rises & falls seem to be rhythmic. Boston, now sinking, was on the up between 1847 and 1876, with most of the elevation gained between 1857 & 1858. The sudden gain, surmises Dr. William Fitch Cheney Jr. (Connecticut Agricultural College), was related to the Naples earthquake of 1857. Charleston had an earthquake...