Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...m.p.h., it churned a path 500 miles wide up & across the Atlantic. And for six days U.S. meteorologists clocked its forward progress, studied its habits, and charted its course (see SCIENCE). When it hit North Carolina's ocean bulge on the seventh day and started up the Eastern Seaboard, ripping like a circular saw, they foretold its movements almost to the mile and hour...
...eastern seaboard there was a Turkish-bath humidity as well. In New York City the temperature reached 96° (a hooded vulture from Africa keeled over in a dead faint at the Bronx Zoo). In Baltimore and Boston it climbed to 99, in Rochester, N.Y., to 98; it was 98 in Chicago, 101 in Kansas City, 102 in Oklahoma City; 117 in Memphis, Tex. and in Blythe, Calif.; 108 at Yuma, Ariz, and Abilene, Tex., 109 at Tucson...
Fuel. Coal production is better than originally forecast, but the Eastern Seaboard will still get only about 87½% of its normal supply. No talk is heard of rationing wood, the nation's No. 2 fuel supply, although the U.S. will be eleven million cords short of its needs. Fuel oil users in 33 states can expect rationing again...
...Shipping Administration allocated ships to pick up 150,000 tons of Argentine corn for August delivery to U.S. dairymen on the eastern seaboard. Additional monthly corn imports will continue until November. By then the War Food...
...located a cache of them already loaded on a freight train in Kansas City. A.S.F. ordered: take the stuff off the freight, truck it across the city and put it on a fast passenger train. Sixty hours after the rush request, the 2,000 kits were on the eastern seaboard, ready to be shipped...