Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...1850s spiritualism swept the U.S. eastern seaboard like a fog. It seemed, said one flabbergasted convert, "as though the spirit world, having at last hit upon a means of communicating with ours, could not get enough of it." Mediums sprang to fame, set the ether vibrating with spirit music, spirit painting, voices, lights, icy currents of air, luminous faces, words written in fire. "A whole mine of mysticism hatching beneath the skepticism of the 19th Century," said the shrewd French Diarists Edmond and Jules Goncourt...
Certainly the brilliant specialists are good to have around, but let's not pretend that they represent the people, except some of the better educated, more "advanced" people of the Eastern seaboard and a few lonely aliens scattered throughout the country...
This novel is Volume II of a massive work, The Disinherited, in which the author of Anthony Adverse is reconstructing a fictional history of the early U.S. in a series of six books roughly corresponding to the stages in which the colonial frontier jumped from the Atlantic Seaboard across the Appalachian Mountains...
...easy that crude costs only one-third to one-half what it does in the U.S. More, this reversal of the oil flow is also geographically feasible: Melbourne is almost equidistant from California and Arabia; the Mediterranean outlets of the Middle East are no farther from the eastern seaboard of the U.S. than the Gulf Coast is from Europe...
...made $311,465 in profits last year on its gross of $32,000,000, a good return for the low-profit but quick-turnover wholesale grocery business. This year, Cummings expects his merged companies to gross $50,000,000 while supplying 60,000 grocers, restaurants, etc. from the Atlantic seaboard to the Rockies...