Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there are two differences: 1) the temperature stays mild and steady (mean annual temperature 55° F.) along most of the U.S. soil range and 2) rainfall increases toward the seaboard where it is most needed. In Russia, the mean temperatures are much lower and rainfall is only moderately higher in the poor-soil areas of the north. In the U.S., climatic factors become more favorable as soil gets poorer; in the U.S.S.R. soil and climate become less favorable together. Agriculturally, Russia runs the wrong...
...friends told him at lunch that the great Canadian forest fires, which have caused smoke clouds over Boston and much of the Eastern seaboard for a week, were approaching nearby Chelsea. Firefighters were neded, they said, and were being paid handsomely...
Singapore Trader. Without waiting for a contract, Pan American World Airways called in Douglas DC-4 Clippers from London and Buenos Aires, summoned experienced crews from Calcutta and Rio de Janeiro, rehired 104 pilots it had laid off in January. Seaboard & Western, a nonscheduled cargo line, loaded 25 Lockheed Aircraft Service maintenance men in its DC-4 Singapore Trader, flew them to California. July 3, eight days after the North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel, the Singapore Trader took off from Fairfield-Suisun on the Tokyo lift's first official flight. At the controls was Captain Francis A. Warner...
...Including Pan American, United, Northwest, Seaboard & Western, Transocean, Overseas National, Flying Tiger Line, Trans World Airlines, Capital, American Overseas...