Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sight. Holand's theory is that Knutson detached members of his party to investigate. This was the band, according to Holand, that reached Minnesota-after a boat trip calculated to make even a Viking tremble. Assumes Holand: the searchers would first search the Atlantic seaboard north of Vinland, then keep on going; hence their route ran up the Atlantic coast into Hudson Bay, down Hudson Bay to the Nelson River, Lake Winnipeg and the Red River into Minnesota's lake country. There, while looking for an overland route back to Vinland, the party was attacked by Indians...
...gear journalese ("diabolical idealistic window-dressing to make cannon fodder out of the cream of their countries' youth," etc.), but certain of his assertions are perfectly plain. Among them: 1) the U.S. itself started the atomic armament race with the U.S.S.R.; 2) the U.S. with its concentrated seaboard metropolises could not protect itself as well as Russia, were matters to come to an atomic showdown; 3) the U.S. has thus far shown little interest in making its democratic ways more attractive abroad to offset the appeal that Soviet Communism, with its racial equality and promise of economic gain, seems...
...down the railroad systems of the Eastern Seaboard, the same silence. Acres of freight cars, brooding herds of grimy locomotives stood in quiet rail yards at Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Jersey City. At dusk, signal lights glowed green along thousands of miles of rail. The tracks were clear-and empty...
Thus 1946 took up where 1945 had left off-and in the same area. Only 16 nights before, only 64 miles to the north, the Seaboard's west coast Silver Meteor had knifed into cars of the northbound Sun Queen, killing six, injuring 62. Seventy-two hours later, a Southern Railway freight had piled up on the rear of a New Orleans-New York limited, killing three...
...seven months there had been eight passenger train pile-ups on the three main lines running down the east coast to Florida resorts-the Seaboard, Atlantic Coast Line and Florida East Coast Railway. Three of the wrecks were in North and South Carolina, where the swift streamliners slide through the night...