Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German submarine campaign had by last week made the Atlantic seaboard one of the most critical combat areas in the world. Navy men, scouring the waters with surface and aircraft, knew it well. So did the National Maritime Union, which numbers its losses at sea in the hundreds. So did men on the production front, officials like Shipping Tsar Rear Admiral "Jerry" Land, and shipbuilders who had suddenly had a strange goal set before them: produce ships faster than the Jerries can sink...
Army control of shore lighting is only the first move in complete Army control of a new "military area": the whole Eastern Seaboard, under the order of Lieut. General Hugh Drum, Commanding General of the First Army...
...Pelley of the Association of American Railroads, claimed that the railroads could muster 20,000 tank cars and haul 200,000 barrels of oil to the coast daily. Skeptics doubted it. Last week the railroads were doing better than that. In 44,000 tank cars they delivered at the seaboard an average of 600,000 barrels of oil daily-nearly half the East Coast's total consumption...
...motorists in 17 States along the Atlantic Seaboard will also receive ration books. Harold Ickes' gasoline shortage, on-again-off-again all last summer, is now a flat fact...
...With Lake shipping space needed to tote some 90,000,000 tons of iron ore, there is slight chance of duplicating last year's 11,000,000-ton grain shipment on the Lakes. Eastern seaboard elevators are brim full of wheat anyway, with no ships to carry it overseas...