Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blackness before dawn, the Silver Meteor streaked through the South Carolina pine barren. In its Pullmans and dim-lit coaches, most of its capacity load of passengers were asleep. The three Diesel-powered locomotives which make it the fastest of the Seaboard Air Line's New York-Miami trains had a clear stretch of track toward that day's sunny warmth in Florida...
...first subject was "The Structure of American Society"; under this title he reiterated the same plea which he has been making up and down the Atlantic seaboard during the past few months; if the goals of this nation are to remain equality of opportunity and a classless democracy, education must be supported by federal...
Where the Bloom Is on the Sage. But all this took place on the eastern seaboard. When it was over, Texas-born Chester Nimitz flew back to the Lone Star State, where every man, woman and child knew all about him and felt he had contributed mightily to the greater glory of the greatest warrior race in history. In Austin, Christmas tree lights were strung up over the streets and in Dallas huge crowds yipped and whooped happily...
...foreign buyers will want many high-priced U.S. ships, or that there will be any commercial use, under any flag, for more than half the 5,000 ships available. Some cargo ships have already been laid up. Hundreds more will follow soon, until the quiet estuaries along the U.S. seaboard become as cluttered with rusting ships as they were after World War I. The U.S. will simply have to write off billions spent on shipping, just as it is writing off billions spent on war plants...
...like Port Arthur's hit oil plants in seven states through the South and Midwest. By week's end 27,000 workers were out. Toledo went on self-imposed gasoline rationing, other communities considered similar steps; millions of gallons of gasoline and fuel oil for the Atlantic seaboard were choked off. At one time last week, 323,000 workers were idle, in strikes and shutdowns...