Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope came to householders along the Eastern Seaboard who have been shivering over grim predictions of fuelless days and heatless homes next winter. The Government—a year too late—finally gave orders for a pipeline last week...
...conduct of anti-submarine warfare. . . . Unfortunately the only types in which [the shipbuilding program] is not well ahead of schedule are those most needed in combatting submarines. ... It does not pay to be unduly optimistic. However . . . in the past few weeks the submarine has largely withdrawn from our eastern seaboard and is operating farther...
...railroads are getting the same share of this booming business. Biggest gainers are the transcontinental lines. Ton-miles for the first quarter were up 64% on the Santa Fe, 42.5% on the Seaboard, 39% for the Atlantic Coast Line, only 22% for the New York Central. But practically all the carriers made good money for the first four months-though their wage increases were already in effect, their compensating freight-rate boost not until March 18. Combined profits of all Class I roads were $149,000,000-almost double last year's $76,299,000. In April, when last...
...Traffic. This week an observer in heaven would have seen in one spreading glance at the Eastern Seaboard that the greatest of all wartime changes yet had come to the U.S. For the traffic had shrunk to a trickle. All the great, wide, sweetly curved, excellently engineered highways were nigh bare of automobiles. Streets were almost empty. Red lights and green lights blinked mechanically on & off, but nothing stopped or scrambled on. Gas stations stood idle, and many gas tanks were dry. Parking lots stood empty in cities. Traffic cops had little...
...Park lasted five. But Mr. Mori's track will be spared close competition; it is the only race track within 25 miles of Philadelphia. Operating in midsummer, between the closing of Delaware Park and the opening of Havre de Grace, it will fill a gap in the midEastern Seaboard's horse-racing circuit. Well aware that racegoers have spent record-breaking millions at Maryland and New York tracks this spring, ingenious Mr. Mori figures that his park should attract plenty of Philadelphians this summer. It is 10? by bus, 12 minutes by auto (even at 30 m.p.h...