Word: seaboarders
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...Bidault's words had a more current historical meaning. They meant that France was again aspiring to her traditional role as a road block to invasions from the east of Europe's Atlantic seaboard. Her Army was embryonic, her Navy was all but destroyed, but armies and navies can be rebuilt. Above all, France was still the world's No. 2 land empire. The power that supported her claims might gain a potentially valuable ally...
...m.p.h., it churned a path 500 miles wide up & across the Atlantic. And for six days U.S. meteorologists clocked its forward progress, studied its habits, and charted its course (see SCIENCE). When it hit North Carolina's ocean bulge on the seventh day and started up the Eastern Seaboard, ripping like a circular saw, they foretold its movements almost to the mile and hour...
...wildest and most destructive of all storms.* Last week Atlantic Coast Americans, who got their word for it from the Carib Indian Huracan (god of stormy weather), were treated to an unusually messy hurricane. For the second time in six years, a tropical cyclone hit the Eastern seaboard with full force...
...eastern seaboard there was a Turkish-bath humidity as well. In New York City the temperature reached 96° (a hooded vulture from Africa keeled over in a dead faint at the Bronx Zoo). In Baltimore and Boston it climbed to 99, in Rochester, N.Y., to 98; it was 98 in Chicago, 101 in Kansas City, 102 in Oklahoma City; 117 in Memphis, Tex. and in Blythe, Calif.; 108 at Yuma, Ariz, and Abilene, Tex., 109 at Tucson...
Fuel. Coal production is better than originally forecast, but the Eastern Seaboard will still get only about 87½% of its normal supply. No talk is heard of rationing wood, the nation's No. 2 fuel supply, although the U.S. will be eleven million cords short of its needs. Fuel oil users in 33 states can expect rationing again...