Word: seaboard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...training centers of the Commission dot the seaboard on both coasts. At St. Petersburg, Fla., Hoffman Island, N.Y., Port Hueneme, Calif., are schools for apprentices, aged between 18 and 23, where would-be mariners do a seven-month hitch learning the rudiments of their trade. Students are paid $21 a month. Experienced able-bodied seamen and oilers get paid $72.50 to $82.50 a month while brushing up on their knowledge. In charge of all training is the U.S. Coast Guard...
Early Tuesday afternoon the Atlantic Seaboard had its own air-raid scare. Planes from Mitchel Field, L.I. took the air (see p. 61). Improvised sirens sounded in the streets of Manhattan. Civilian planes were grounded. Schoolchildren were sent home...
...third day of the war, at lunch time, radio stations on the Atlantic seaboard had to grapple with a scare report (see p. 61). In a sweat of swift thinking ("hardest thing I ever had to do") CBS's News Chief Paul White decided that until it was more than an unconfirmed rumor, the cause of the alert should be treated as such. He called up NBC's News Chief Abe Schechter, reached an internetwork understanding. Slight inducement to panic thereafter came from CBS or NBC announcers...
...Officer Esmond Marcus David Romilly, 23, adventurous nephew of Mrs. Winston Churchill, was listed by the R.C.A.F. as "missing after overseas air operations." Onetime Loyalist fighter in Spain, he eloped with the Hon. Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford, sister of Nazi-phile Unity, romped about the U.S.'s eastern seaboard with her from 1939 till last year when he went to Canada to enter training...
...this week the Maritime Commission was not fretting. The barges are designed mainly to carry Texas oil to the Atlantic Seaboard. If they help prevent an East Coast oil shortage next year they will have done their part...