Word: seaboarders
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...group in the U.S. this week the wartime dimout on the East Coast is a pleasant necessity. They are the seaboard members of the informal fellowship of amateur astronomers. All over the U.S., through handmade telescopes mounted in attics, haylofts, garages, cornfields, hilltops, these sidereal sightseers lift up their eyes on cloudless nights to peer at the stars. Until the dimout their stargazing was hampered by the electric corona (newspapers now call it "lume") that glares on the sky above brightly lit towns. Now, with lights out or dimmed, amateur astronomers can see new hundreds of feeble stars...
...sense of emergency tautened the air of Allied uncertainty. Japanese feints and lunges at the Aleutians, the China seaboard, the northeastern frontiers of India, the northern fringes of Australia, and at Russia's far eastern borders bound the Allies in a web of contradictory plans and policies. Their only certainty was that the Japanese, unaided and therefore unfettered by allies, had a plan, and that the plan would be boldly executed...
...first of 80 flight strips-auxiliary landing fields adjacent to highways-was opened "somewhere on the Middle Atlantic Seaboard" last week. It is 8,000 ft. long and over 500 ft. wide, with a 7,000-ft. concrete runway...
...Eastern seaboard gasoline leak up through its price ceiling again last week-up 2? to cover the cost difference between tanker transportation before Pearl Harbor and rail transportation now. It was a real setback for price control, but it was not the kind of setback that people would get excited over. The average citizen found it hard to see any moral reason why the taxpayer should be soaked for a subsidy of up to $100,000,000 to make it cheaper for motorists to buy gasoline the Government would much rather they would not buy. For the time being, fuel...
...high with an exploding freighter off a Virginia beach last week went the optimism of Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox. The Secretary had assured the U.S. that the U-boat menace had been thrust back 50 miles from the Eastern Seaboard...