Word: seaboarders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greater proportion of 1929 sales was by mail order, today mail orders account for only some 40% of Sears Roebuck's business and more than a third of the stores which are now its cornerstone are situated in the comparatively small but populous area of the northeastern seaboard States...
Three other changes made by the Survey were certainly not calculated to win the Roosevelt Administration votes on the Atlantic seaboard. To the list of protected birds it added Atlantic brant, canvasback and redhead ducks. Daily bag limits for 1936 remain as in 1935 - ten ducks of all species and four geese or brant - with only one day's bag allowed in possession at any time...
Though the U. S. has been a fertile field of observation, Author Peattie lists few U. S. naturalists. John Bartram, Colonial farmer turned collector, roamed the whole Atlantic seaboard for his European customers. Alexander Wilson and Jean-Jacques Audubon were first-rate ornithologists. Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, "most widely celebrated unknown man in science," was a brilliant Jack-of-all-sciences. Germany's Goethe was an amateur naturalist whose scientific theories were often ridiculous but almost always fruitful. Author Peattie's biggest hero is an Englishman. Charles Darwin, whose five seasick years aboard H. M. S. Beagle gave...
...Manhattan, Keeshin Transcontinental Freight Lines, largest U. S. truck operator (TIME, Sept. 2), explained to an Interstate Commerce Commissioner why it wished to buy Seaboard Freight Lines, New England's largest operator, for $250,000. In opposition, all New England's major railroads declared that the plan would effect no vital economies, was not in the best public interest...
...same head-over-heels haste President Roosevelt had started another relief project at the other end of the Atlantic seaboard. Day after the S. S. Dixie went on a reef in a tropical hurricane last September, he announced that he was starting work on a ship canal across Florida. This debatable enterprise would cost $146,000,000 plus, might make a semidesert of that part of Florida lying south of the waterway (TIME, Feb. 17). As a means of putting men to work, the President turned $5,000,000 over to the Army Engineers, told them to get going...