Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...semi-darkness for almost six hours. A game of gold was interrupted. In the Maine woods a whole forestry service is goading an army of slugs and other parasites to a counter-offensive against the gypsy moth, which is destroying the forests. At the same time legislators in seaboard states are rallying to the aid of the oyster, in grave danger of extinction. It is only at such times, when privilege and property is in danger, that the present society of high finance deigns to notice the lowly beast bird or fish...
Chicago is the railroad heart of the United States. The stream of trade which is the life of the nation circulates through this heart and is transmitted through the great arteries, or trunk lines, into the smaller capillaries. The seaboard cities like New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, San Francisco, and Boston may be likened to the lungs of this great body, for it is at these ports that the old blood is exchanged for new and sent back to the heart for distribution. Every throb of railroad policy that emanates from the heart is felt in all parts...
...impracticable for private concerns to do these things. That would be like asking the White Star Line to furnish and maintain all the light-houses and other safety devices along the Atlantic seaboard...
...national power policy", said Mr. W. S. Murray, in a recent interview for the CRIMSON regarding his work as chairman of the committee appointed by the late Mr. Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, to report on the advisability of connecting all sources of energy on the Eastern seaboard into one central, superpower system. Mr. Murray is known especially for his work in electrifying the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Rail-road from New York to Stamford...
...Murray was the first man to conceive the project of a superpower station for the region between Boston and Washington and urged the late Mr. Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, to make a survey of the source of energy in New England and along the Atlantic Seaboard as far South as Washington. The survey considered the economic possibilities of interconnecting existing electric power plants and systems in the zone and building of new plants...