Word: seaboarders
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Army control of shore lighting is only the first move in complete Army control of a new "military area": the whole Eastern Seaboard, under the order of Lieut. General Hugh Drum, Commanding General of the First Army...
...Pelley of the Association of American Railroads, claimed that the railroads could muster 20,000 tank cars and haul 200,000 barrels of oil to the coast daily. Skeptics doubted it. Last week the railroads were doing better than that. In 44,000 tank cars they delivered at the seaboard an average of 600,000 barrels of oil daily-nearly half the East Coast's total consumption...
...deep. Railheads are at water's edge. There are plenty of piers, cranes, warehouses for handling cargoes; plenty of trained labor. But last week, while other Atlantic ports were chockablock with war supplies, Boston docks and warehouses were empty.* The nation's handiest harbor on the Eastern Seaboard was a ghost port...
...Falls Mills is down 5,100 feet, three others are going down fast. If Mike strikes oil it may mean another West Virginia oil boom, more cash in Benedum bank accounts. But Mike is after more than money: a big strike in West Virginia would benefit the whole Atlantic seaboard, would be the best possible way of easing the East Coast oil shortage...
Lashing the castern seaboard, the freak April blizzard wiped out more than 10 intercollegiate diamond engagements. The Penn-Navy clash at Annapolis was the only major contest to be played, and it resulted in a ninthinning 11 to 8 victory for the Quakers...