Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This, the 1941 Harper Prize ($10,000) novel, is a problem book about marriage among U.S. upper-middle class, eastern-seaboard, Smith-or-Vassar bred, young housewives. It is written in their official dialect, by one of them. For the rest of them, it will probably be the novel of the season...
...voluntary filling-station curfew in eastern seaboard States seemed to be at least a moral success last week. Whether it had actually cut down gas consumption, it was still too early to say. Petroleum Coordinator Harold Ickes indicated that the curtailment had fallen far short of the desired one-third. In any case, rationing of gasoline for motorists was more than a probability. Preparing for a vacation in the West (where he expects a less serious shortage), Coordinator Ickes said: "We want to give this voluntary campaign a fair trial...
...bombers-for-Britain took off with loaded bomb racks, flew the Atlantic in seven to eight hours. Moral: Given equally good bombers, plus willingness to sacrifice them in one-way flights, the Nazis can bomb the U.S. eastern seaboard...
Approved by ICC last week was a reorganization plan for the second major railroad to fall victim to depression-the 2,409-mile Wabash, in the courts since 1931 (the Seaboard has been in since 1930). The Wabash, known as "the road that starts nowhere and ends nowhere," has defaulted four times in 66 years, spent 22 of them in receivership. It lacks seaport and gateway terminals, depends on other lines to feed it about two-thirds of its business. But its straight-sweeping main line from Buffalo to Kansas City avoids the congestion at Chicago and St. Louis...
...next year ICC came out with its "final'' consolidation plan. Instead of the four systems expected by the Eastern railroads (New York Central, Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio-Erie-Nickel Plate), ICC proposed five-the fifth being a looping road-to-nowhere based on the Wabash and Seaboard. And instead of approving the Pennsy's expensive purchase, ICC began anti-trust proceedings...