Word: seaboard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Simplicity marks the newsreel, which is largely a collection of shots from all parts of the distressed areas of the seaboard. There is no "clever" photography or editorialized comment, yet these advance pictures give a vivid portrayal of last week's disaster...
...summer died and autumn rains swept the Atlantic seaboard, jolly Professor Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby last week talked about weather in a Swedish accent to members of the Fifth International Congress of Applied Mechanics, at Cambridge. Mass. New facts had been obtained, said Dr. Rossby, from weather sounding balloons and airplane explorations of the upper atmosphere. These had been woven together into an original theory about the general circulation of the atmosphere, an elaborate theory still thin in spots, but one that raises scientific hopes for more accurate weather prediction...
...traitors now proscribed by the Post and Mr. Roosevelt were Senator Millard Evelyn Tydings of Maryland and Representative John Joseph O'Connor of New York. Their names brought to four the list of eminent Democrats along the eastern seaboard publicly consigned to purgatory by the President's Purge. The others: Senators Smith of South Carolina and George of Georgia. To slap the latter further down, the White House last week caused RFC to oust, "for political activities," Senator George's stanch supporter. Edgar B. Dunlap, counsel to RFC's Atlanta office...
Greatest bane of Atlantic seaboard oystermen is not the four months without R but the family of Asteroidea-starfish. When a starfish wants an oyster, it wraps its arms around an oyster's shell and pulls. The oyster resists, but its shell-closing muscle eventually tires and its shell gapes. The starfish then intrudes its stomach into the opening, absorbs the oyster. To reduce the numbers of starfish preying on their beds, oystermen frequently drag frayed ropes over the sea bottom. The spiny skins of the starfish become entangled in the ropes and they are hauled to the surface...
...places along the Atlantic Coast on his Day (July 15),* and on day after day thereafter the skies opened, the clouds burst and most of the East from Maine to Georgia was drenched to sogginess. Meteorologists explained that a "cold front" had merely come to a halt at seaboard, meeting warm, moist airs from the sea. This knowledge "was small comfort to marooned motorists in New Jersey, stalled train commuters in New York, flooded manufacturers in Pennsylvania, growers of damaged tobacco in Connecticut, potatoes on Long Island, cotton in Georgia. Big League baseball games were repeatedly postponed, golf tournaments delayed...