Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make them wonder how the results would be used. "The circumstances were also apparently such as to annoy the students and to invite ironical and flippant answers." the Crimson pointed out. "For example, Portland, Oregon was frequently said to be located on the Mississippi River or on the Atlantic seaboard, and Franklin Roosevelt was listed among the Presidents who have been assassinated...
...motivation behind it and to make them wonder how the results would be used. The circumstances were also apparently such as to annoy the students and to invite ironical and flippant answers (e.g., Portland, Oregon, was frequently said to be located on the Mississippi River or on the Atlantic seaboard, and Franklin D. Roosevelt was listed among the presidents who have been assassinated...
...Barcelona last month the U.S. Ambassador to Spain, Carlton J. H. Hayes, made a statement that had repercussions (TIME, March 8). Shipments from America, he said, had built up Fascist Spain's oil stocks "considerably higher than the present per capita distribution of the Atlantic seaboard of the U.S." To many this smelled of State Department appeasement-the kind once tendered Japan and Vichy. Sections of the U.S. press viewed with alarm. Some Eastern Congressmen viewed with anger...
...arrangement with Britain whereby Spanish vessels could carry limited quantities of South American oil through the British blockade. Said Sumner Welles: "Adequate guarantees have been furnished . . . that none of these petroleum products will leave Spain. . . . The transportation . . . has no relation to petroleum products available to the Eastern seaboard...
...much oil and gasoline that stocks in Spain are now "considerably higher than the present per capita distribution to the people of the Atlantic seaboard...