Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army Air Forces tried to impress the people of the Eastern Seaboard last week by flying 135 World War II Superfortresses over their heads. The main target of a simulated bombing attack was New York City, which only 101 bombers reached. One squadron had to be diverted to Florida after it ran into storms over Arkansas. To the disgust of General George C. Kenney, boss of the Strategic Air Command, one squadron reached New York 20 minutes late...
...Manhattan and its surrounding counties, by last week, there were eleven cases of smallpox (including one death) traceable to a visiting Mexican (TIME, April 21). Health officials hoped that the situation was under control. But up & down the eastern seaboard, plain citizens were taking no chances...
...Near Maxville, Fla., the Seaboard Air Line Railroad's northbound Orange Blossom Special hit a split rail with a speed that sent six sleepers and the diner skidding on their streamlined sides. Reason: bad maintenance. Injured...
Last week, coach Mikkola's beefy proteges scored a clean sweep over Army and Princeton, whipping 239-pound cadet Schultz (who previously had placed third in the West Point relays against some of the eastern seaboard's best weight competition...
With airports socked in to the eastern seaboard and as far south as the Carolinas, there was no chance of getting to Washington on time. The ceremony was postponed until the next day. Then, in Harry Truman's White House office, in the presence of cabinet and congressional bigwigs, Chief Justice Fred Vinson was scheduled to administer the oath to General George Marshall, 48th Secretary in the line started by Thomas Jefferson...