Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first of 80 flight strips-auxiliary landing fields adjacent to highways-was opened "somewhere on the Middle Atlantic Seaboard" last week. It is 8,000 ft. long and over 500 ft. wide, with a 7,000-ft. concrete runway...
...Eastern seaboard gasoline leak up through its price ceiling again last week-up 2? to cover the cost difference between tanker transportation before Pearl Harbor and rail transportation now. It was a real setback for price control, but it was not the kind of setback that people would get excited over. The average citizen found it hard to see any moral reason why the taxpayer should be soaked for a subsidy of up to $100,000,000 to make it cheaper for motorists to buy gasoline the Government would much rather they would not buy. For the time being, fuel...
...There may be some instances along the Atlantic Seaboard of bodies washing ashore and there may be beaches on the Atlantic Seaboard that are covered with oil. However, I can truthfully state that there...
...high with an exploding freighter off a Virginia beach last week went the optimism of Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox. The Secretary had assured the U.S. that the U-boat menace had been thrust back 50 miles from the Eastern Seaboard...
...Again. Early this year hopeful Harold Ickes tried again, again had his face pushed in. But with the transfer of some 300 tankers to war service, and the East Coast sub sinkings, oil reserves on the Eastern Seaboard dropped 2,000,000 bbl. a week. Mr. Ickes started digging up and relocating old lines, using second-hand pipe to improve a vastly inadequate system. In May he went to WPB with another plea for steel allocations. There were conferences. WPBoss Donald Nelson emerged from lunch at the White House to declare with finality: "The pipeline is out unless you want...