Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coast Guard Commandant has been in close touch with the actual conditions also the Atlantic seaboard. He is personally in charge of the extensive blockades now being maintained off Boston, New York, and other Atlantic ports. He has witnessed in person gun duals between his men and the blockade runners...
...There is not the slightest doubt that the smuggling of liquor on the northern Atlantic seaboard has been tremendously curtailed since last spring," Rear Admiral F. C. Billard, Commandant of the Coast Guard who is to address a Union audience on Thursday, yesterday told a CRIMSON reporter...
...Coast Guard was started," said Rear Admiral Billard, in 1790. Its purpose is to protect the customs laws of the United States. In these days, around the end of the eighteenth century, smugglers were very active in running contraband into secluded bays and inlets along the Atlantic seaboard. The original Coast Guard cutters had to combat this activity, which they succeeded in stamping out, and smuggling of that character practically disappeared...
Rear Admiral Billard has been in close touch with the actual conditions along the seaboard, and has himself witnessed the fights between bootleggers and hijackers, and machine-gun encounters between bootleggers and hijackers on one side and the Coast Guard on the other...
...California many companies were growing tired of carrying vast stocks of crude oil. When the "stabilizers" got the price of gasoline up to high levels-the east, the California independents accordingly refined their oil, shipped the gasoline cheaply through Panama, and started a lively price-war in the Atlantic seaboard states. The Standard Oil companies were forced to meet the cuts by lowering their own tank wagon prices. Thus "price stabilization's" apple cart has been neatly spilled...