Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tempest, a spent and blowsy drunkard, reeled northward into Georgia and north along the eastern seaboard. Bessie, one of Florida's most ferocious hurricanes, at week's end had been demoted to a "disturbance" on Weather Bureau charts...
...scheduled airlines were so jammed for space that the CAB, which had been slapping down unscheduled carriers, let four of them help out. It gave special permits to Seaboard & Western, Transocean, Alaskan and Coastal-all nonscheduled ocean flyers-to haul limited groups of U.S. students and European displaced persons at low summer rates...
...clock nears 8 along the Eastern Seaboard on Tuesday night, a strange new phenomenon takes place in U.S. urban life. Business falls off in many a nightclub, theater-ticket sales are light, neighborhood movie audiences thin. Some late-hour shopkeepers post signs and close up for the night. In Manhattan, diners at Lindy's gulp their after-dinner coffee and call for their checks as they did in the days of the Roosevelt fireside chats. On big-city bar rails along the coast and in the Midwest, there is hardly room for another foot. For the next hour, wherever...
...brilliant crimson" and his lowbred way of breezily combing his long tresses during a dinner given in his honor. At one such function he was asked which of two countrywomen of his was the more beautiful, the Duchess of Sutherland or Mrs. Caroline Norton, and put the whole Eastern seaboard into deep freeze by replying airily: "Well, I don't know. Mrs. Norton is perhaps the more beautiful, but the Duchess to my mind is the more kissable...
...illustrate how his Alleghany Corp. has been expanding into other fields and greener pastures. Since early 1948, Alleghany had sold more than $17 million of its railroad holdings, because Young was bearish on their earnings' future. Among the sales: Alleghany's entire common-stock interest in Seaboard Air Line Railroad and most of its holdings in Central of Georgia and Florida East Coast Railway Co. (all roads where Young could not get control). Alleghany also plans to sell its holdings of 225,000 shares of Rock Island common stock, and get out of that road...