Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maine this week, busy Hearstlings were wrapping up a big newsprint deal: a $7million purchase of half a million acres of timberland, together with the most modern big pulp mill in the U.S., Maine Seaboard Paper...
...eight million smokers was 23 a day, or eight packs a week. But a steady stream of news stories bore out the fact that soldiers at the front were getting nowhere near as many as that. The question arose: were there huge unused Army & Navy stocks stored away in seaboard warehouses...
...burning homes on the eastern seaboard will get enough oil this winter. There will be enough oil, in fact, so that the nearly 200,000 citizens who patriotically converted from oil to coal-and then found there was not enough coal, either-will soon be allowed to convert back to oil again...
...Bidault's words had a more current historical meaning. They meant that France was again aspiring to her traditional role as a road block to invasions from the east of Europe's Atlantic seaboard. Her Army was embryonic, her Navy was all but destroyed, but armies and navies can be rebuilt. Above all, France was still the world's No. 2 land empire. The power that supported her claims might gain a potentially valuable ally...
...wildest and most destructive of all storms.* Last week Atlantic Coast Americans, who got their word for it from the Carib Indian Huracan (god of stormy weather), were treated to an unusually messy hurricane. For the second time in six years, a tropical cyclone hit the Eastern seaboard with full force...