Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City's Department of Health got 1,526 complaints about heatless apartments. In many another locality, especially along the Eastern seaboard, shivering householders eyed their dwindling coal bins and thought unkind thoughts about John L. Lewis. Patriots who had converted from oil to coal had an extra curse for Harold L. Ickes...
Harvard Yard may soon blaze forth in all its peacetime glory, as University authorities began to comply with the recently announced Army relaxation of dimout regulations along the Eastern seaboard...
Drillers struck oil last week in the muck of Florida's Everglades, where Humble Oil & Refining Co., biggest domestic affiliate of Standard of New Jersey, bailed out the first 400 barrels of black crude from the first producing well on the Eastern Seaboard. Standard's 11,700-ft.-deep well added fuel to the old hope of geologists that the great Gulf Coast oil beds extend eastward to the Atlantic, comprise an area almost double that of the present known fields...
...second of the two appointees, who also helped to fill vacancies erosted by the transfer of Major William D. Thornton, Infantry, to another War Department assignment on the Eastern Seaboard, is First Lieutenant John K. Darling, C.E. He will be the new School Supply officer...
Most of the division's men were from the eastern seaboard, particularly from the New York areas, and Allen's first impression was that they were smaller than the soldiers he was used to. But he soon learned that they were tough and good. In Scotland and England he drilled them incessantly for war: a 40-mile march in 24 hours, with full field equipment, was required of every unit. They trained in amphibious war (although they then lacked the landing craft which they would actually use, and missed practice in the precise timing of real invasion...