Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South, the land of cotton, sharecropping and mortgages, is the fastest changing region of the U.S. From the southern Atlantic seaboard west to Arkansas and Louisiana,* trim, modern factories have sprung up in the cities, the small towns and the open fields. Since the beginning of World War II, industry has invested billions in new Southern plants, put 2,000,000 Southerners on new, steady payrolls, and started the dynamics of history's first enlightened industrial revolution...
This is a sizable job, for the Crimson joins from twenty to twenty-five meets a year. Opponents come from as far away as Michigan and California, but most hail from the Eastern seaboard...
...Named for Farmer Abner Spraberry, on whose land Seaboard Oil Co. first struck the formation...
...June 30, holdings of common stocks were: 21.5% oil, 20.5 % public utilities, 10.8% insurance companies, 6.8% chemicals. Major purchases of oil stocks included American Republic, Seaboard Oil, Superior Oil, Pure Oil, and Socony Vacuum...
Major purchases of stocks during the year included: J.I. Case, Seaboard Air Line Railway, Eastern Gas and Fuel, B.F. Goodrich, and Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. Largest individual holdings were in Standard Oil, General Electric, Christina Securities, International Paper, Insurance Company of North America, General Motors, Illinois Powers, and Kennecoit Copper...