Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What a Sailor Must Learn. Cornelius Shields was born far from the sea, in St. Paul, Minn., in 1895. Fitly enough, it was a notable year in U.S. sailing history, though the year's tidings made little ripple beyond the Eastern Seaboard. It was the year in which American yachtsmen, sailing Defender, a lineal descendant of the great ocean racer America,* defeated the British challenger for the tenth straight time in the America's Cup series. It was also the year in which the premier international championship for smaller boats, the Seawanhaka Cup series, was launched. Though...
...Boomtowns on the Byways On 70 acres in Yonkers, N.Y. last week, builders were working on a $30 million shopping Center, the biggest in the East. The Cross County Center, seven miles from Manhattan, will contain one of the biggest supermarkets (First National Stores) ever built on the Eastern Seaboard and a $5,500,000 Gimbels' branch, its first in the New York area. The 5,40O-car parking lot will be big enough to handle 25,000 cars...
...scholarships entitle their holders to spend nine months studying in West Germany at a university of their choice. The student's transportation from any city on the eastern seaboard of the United States to and from the university will be paid by the scholarship. In addition, the student will receive 250 marks per month, or about...
...Senate (which acted on 79 bills): ¶ Passed (56-35), after five weeks and 1,250,000 words of debate, the tidelands bill to grant seaboard states title to their marginal seas to the limit of their historic boundaries, sent it back to the House. ¶ Passed, over strong objections by Majority Leader Robert A. Taft, a bill authorizing the Export-Import Bank to write insurance against war damage and seizure on cotton and other American products shipped to friendly countries, sent it to the House. Taft called it "a very unfortunate extension of government in business . . . out of line...
...ailing heart was beginning to hamper his leadership of the marathon-talking Democratic opposition) agreed that it was time to call a halt to the 21-day offshore oil filibuster (TiME, May 4). The Senate quickly approved a plan to vote this week on the Holland bill, which grants seaboard states title to their marginal seas to the limit of their historic boundaries. In total, the filibuster: 1) aroused no public outcry against the bill, 2) changed few senatorial minds, 3) changed not at all the Administration's resolve to return control of tidelands to the states, 4) wasted...