Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...markers, which pointed suspiciously at airfields and factories along the eastern seaboard, were photographed early last spring by an observation squadron of the Army's First Air Force. The squadron...
...does not drive passengers away, the extra .55? will bring the roads well over $10,000,000. The bankrupt Seaboard Air Line, for example, hopes to collect an added $1,250,000 a year, about equal to its net income...
...group in the U.S. this week the wartime dimout on the East Coast is a pleasant necessity. They are the seaboard members of the informal fellowship of amateur astronomers. All over the U.S., through handmade telescopes mounted in attics, haylofts, garages, cornfields, hilltops, these sidereal sightseers lift up their eyes on cloudless nights to peer at the stars. Until the dimout their stargazing was hampered by the electric corona (newspapers now call it "lume") that glares on the sky above brightly lit towns. Now, with lights out or dimmed, amateur astronomers can see new hundreds of feeble stars...
...President Roosevelt, his oil boss Harold L. Ickes and most oilmen "from Missouri," were taking no chances. The President warned the Eastern seaboard that householders had better prepare for fuel-oil rationing. Ickes went beyond words to action, halted all deliveries of heating oil until Sept. 15 to build up stocks, warned 400,000 homeowners who burn oil in converted coal furnaces that they may not be allowed any oil at all and had better convert back to coal right away. So far, he said, fewer than 30,000 have done...
...sense of emergency tautened the air of Allied uncertainty. Japanese feints and lunges at the Aleutians, the China seaboard, the northeastern frontiers of India, the northern fringes of Australia, and at Russia's far eastern borders bound the Allies in a web of contradictory plans and policies. Their only certainty was that the Japanese, unaided and therefore unfettered by allies, had a plan, and that the plan would be boldly executed...