Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Intercoastal tankers carry over 90% of all the oil consumed on the U.S.'s Atlantic seaboard, which is nearly half the U.S. market for motor fuel. The 25 tankers withdrawn this week normally carried 100,000 barrels from the Gulf to Eastern cities every day. When the second 25 follow soon, the seaboard oil stringency will be acute. Already Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) has begun to convert part of its great Bayway (N.J.) refinery to burn coal instead of oil. This week Socony announced it would follow suit, and that it had already converted the heating system...
...Seaboard's Silver Meteor and Atlantic Coast Line's Champion, all-coach streamliners which have made the New York-Florida run faster than the fastest Pullmans, had sleepers added to appease Pullman patrons...
...last week its first large-scale offensive with hope of success was under way. The offensive was made possible by a newly developed weapon, the Bacillus papillae, which kills grubs under the soil before they turn into the brown-winged green beetles which every summer ravage the Atlantic seaboard from Chesapeake Bay to Long Island Sound...
...ripples in a pool, the beetles spread year by year to surrounding territory. Since quantities of U.S. nursery stock are grown in the most beetled area of New Jersey, the insects would soon have infested the whole U.S. but for a firm Federal quarantine. Each year on the eastern seaboard the beetles now devour millions of dollars' worth of foliage, fruits, flowers, vegetables. They spend over three-fourths of their year of life as grubs, damaging lawns, links and pastures by eating grass roots...
...soldierly tone of his book will remind Americans that, even if they have forgotten it in peacetime, they are one of the world's great warrior nations, that the whole continental seaboard is a great field of their battles from Quebec and Louisburg to Chapultepec; that the pitting of Americans against Americans resulted in the world's most terrible battles until World War I-on the rolling farmlands of Gettysburg, in the narrow valley of Antietam Creek, on the hills at Chickamauga, in the oak and pine thickets of Virginia's Wilderness...