Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fortune, to turn triumphantly eastward and demonstrate to himself, his family and the world that he is what many already think he is, a potent journalist. He pictured himself buying or starting up a chain of eastern papers, avoiding Philadelphia and Manhattan, and becoming to the Atlantic seaboard what the late Edward Wyllis Scripps was to the Midlands...
...railroads from making special rates .to compete with waterways other than the Panama Canal. This will be opposed as bitterly as ever by-the Great Lakes representatives, but since it does not greatly affect rates between the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, Senator Gooding hopes to get some support from seaboard Senators. But it is unlikely that this bill will agitate the present session...
...while waiting for Congress to demobilize the Continental army, George Washington made a tour of inspection of New York waterways, laid out a route for a canal linking the western frontier with the Atlantic seaboard. In 1817-25. Governor De Witt Clinton of New York dug the Erie Canal ("Clinton's Ditch") from Troy to Buffalo. It was later found that his engineers had followed, inch for inch, the Washington route. More lately, the Erie Canal has been modernized as far west as Syracuse, where it joins the Oswego Canal to form the main New York State Barge Canal...
...second place the application of the one seventh ruling will become discretionary with the Committee on Admission, and, beginning in 1927 the privilege will be taken away from the larger endowed academies and city high schools of the seaboard East...
According to officials of the Southern Railway, the Seaboard Air Line and the Atlantic Coast Line, freight congestion at Jacksonville-rightly known as the gateway to Florida-has backed up traffic as far north as Savannah and Atlanta. Indeed ever since Oct. 29 the Seaboard has found it necessary to declare an embargo on all carload freight except food for human and animal consumption, railway supplies, tank cars and petroleum products. After elaborate precautions, householders can get less than carload lots of household effects through in about three weeks. An especial dearth of automobiles in Florida is reported, owing...