Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American are the only scheduled U.S. carriers making freight flights over the route, and most of their cargo takes second place to passengers. Last week, pressed by the urgent shipments of U.S. aid abroad, the CAB handed a big slice of the business to a younger airline. Its name: Seaboard & Western Airlines, Inc., which has flown some 2,700 flights across the Atlantic and Pacific since 1947 as a nonscheduled carrier...
...gave Seaboard permission to make 72 flights a month to Europe, Asia and the Middle East on a temporary basis, provided that it carries at least 40% Government cargo on its outbound trips. Thus, Seaboard will be able to set up regular flights, get the benefits of scheduled service. CAB, which once turned down Seaboard's application for permanent scheduled Atlantic routes, also agreed to reconsider the application...
...Originally, the Committee intended to concentrate on the South and the Far West, where selling and recruiting work is needed most. But the program has expanded in scope, so that members now represent 38 states--most of them midwestern and the group also does extensive work along the Atlantic seaboard...
...have attracted one Dayton student in every two or three years. But for the Class of 1956, 34 students from the Ohio city filed applications; 25 were admitted, with the fantastic number of four national scholarships. Toledo, Memphis, Miami, and Portland also showed considerable progress, while on the Atlantic seaboard, the North Shore and Westchester clubs have become particularly active...
Even in oil-rich West Texas, the area around Midland (pop. 34,256) had once given up hopes for oil. The land had been drilled repeatedly without luck. In 1943, Seaboard Oil found a promising rock formation, but no oil, on Abner Spraberry's farm. Not until 1948 did Wildcatter Arthur ("Tex") Harvey discover that the "Spraberry Trend," as the formation was named, was full of oil, though imprisoned in the fine-grained, hard-packed sands. Then, the new techniques of the industry came into play: soap & kerosene, pumped into the sandstone under tremendous pressure, loosened it enough...