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...blackness before dawn, the Silver Meteor streaked through the South Carolina pine barren. In its Pullmans and dim-lit coaches, most of its capacity load of passengers were asleep. The three Diesel-powered locomotives which make it the fastest of the Seaboard Air Line's New York-Miami trains had a clear stretch of track toward that day's sunny warmth in Florida...
Thus 1946 took up where 1945 had left off-and in the same area. Only 16 nights before, only 64 miles to the north, the Seaboard's west coast Silver Meteor had knifed into cars of the northbound Sun Queen, killing six, injuring 62. Seventy-two hours later, a Southern Railway freight had piled up on the rear of a New Orleans-New York limited, killing three...
...seven months there had been eight passenger train pile-ups on the three main lines running down the east coast to Florida resorts-the Seaboard, Atlantic Coast Line and Florida East Coast Railway. Three of the wrecks were in North and South Carolina, where the swift streamliners slide through the night...
...first subject was "The Structure of American Society"; under this title he reiterated the same plea which he has been making up and down the Atlantic seaboard during the past few months; if the goals of this nation are to remain equality of opportunity and a classless democracy, education must be supported by federal...
Where the Bloom Is on the Sage. But all this took place on the eastern seaboard. When it was over, Texas-born Chester Nimitz flew back to the Lone Star State, where every man, woman and child knew all about him and felt he had contributed mightily to the greater glory of the greatest warrior race in history. In Austin, Christmas tree lights were strung up over the streets and in Dallas huge crowds yipped and whooped happily...