Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the first and second quartiles (final grades) will be invited to request special assignments for temporary additional duty for the leave period. These men will be given the opportunity to study, under orders, some special problem in Navy disbursing or supply at some Naval activity on the Eastern seaboard...
...Pittsburgh plant, as well as the limping Baltimore factory, worked night & day, while their supervisory staffs took cat naps on the floor. Army bombers took the last 22,000 lb. of production to the seaboard. By 11:45 a.m. on Friday, June 11, just two weeks after the first Army phone call and only seven hours after it left Standard's Pittsburgh plant, the final vat was stowed away and North Africa-bound. The whole thing happened so fast that no one even thought to talk about contracts and cost. But by last week, with the new invasion...
...Credit Corp. bill, which prohibited the use of subsidies to roll back food prices. Immediately the House strategists conferred, under the prism-hung chandelier in Speaker Sam Rayburn's ornate office. Telegrams were hurried off to more than 50 absentees, mostly in the big cities along the Atlantic seaboard. Members of the House Whip organization streamed in, got a broad sketch of the veto message, were told to go to work on Republicans and Democrats alike with one big argument: "There is going to be a certain amount of inflation, we all know that. It is here already...
...Mexico, Arizona, Georgia and Mississippi are the most lightning-liked states, with an annual fatality rate of ten in a million population. Pacific Coast states and the Middle Atlantic seaboard states are the safest: (less than two per million in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and southern New England...
Last week the U-boats' return to the American seaboard was announced. Atlantic skippers told of twelve-hour running fights. Now Doenitz sent his raiders hunting in multiple packs. His U-boats attacked in waves-first to disrupt escorts, then to bore in among the helpless merchantmen for the kill. To supplement the work of the U-boats was a still-powerful German surface fleet, reportedly moved from Norway fjords, possibly operating again against Atlantic convoys...