Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great American era of the automobile came to a virtual end in 17 States along the Atlantic seaboard last week. Without any warning, the Office of Price Administration banned all pleasure and nonessential driving. At the same time, OPA cut the value of fuel oil coupons for home use by 10% and the amount of fuel oil for nonresidential purposes by 25%. Taken together, these orders brought about the greatest civilian dislocations to date...
...movement of troops and supplies to seaboard was only a beginning. Henry J. Kaiser emerged as the most publicized businessman of 1942, not only because of his immense energy and drive but because he applied them to the most critical of all problems-the supply of shipping. Kaiser had never built a ship up to the time that Hitler invaded Poland. He had built highways, helped build Boulder Dam, and had learned, in his own phrase, to handle "the heavy materials." Kaiser's ability to handle heavy materials allowed him to cut the time for delivering a Liberty ship...
Each month U.S. consumers put 130 million sugar-ration stamps into circulation and on the Eastern Seaboard 150 million gasoline coupons. After Nov. 22, the entire nation will use gas coupons, and when OPA's Christmas present of an all-purpose ration book reaches all the nation's people so many extra millions of coupons will be spent each month that local ration boards will no longer be able to cope with the ever-mounting piles of papers. So OPA last week started testing, in the Albany-Schenectady-Troy area of New York, a plan for ration-coupon...
...causes of the inflation are clear enough. Japan has captured China's chief sources of revenue (customs, salt taxes, seaboard factory profits). China has financed its war partly by greatly increased currency circulation. On top of this, the war has brought acute shortages in the basic fields of food, clothing and transportation, and also in most luxuries. Once prices began to rise, the Government let them rise for revenue, and presently they skyrocketed...
...greatest number of attacke, which reached a peak during May and June when more than 174 vessels were sunk, occured off the Atlantic seaboard and in the Caribbean...