Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrote: "No private program and no public policy, in any section of our national life, can now escape from the compelling fact that if it is not framed with reference to the world, it is framed with perfect ability." This view-point has not been confined to the Atlantic Seaboard and Mr. Stinson, or to such headline names as Paul Hoffman, Henry Ford, and John J. McCloy...
When James Conant became President in 1933, he found America's oldest college filled with well-to-do students from the Eastern seaboard, most of whom suffered from neither ambition nor ability. One of his most imaginative efforts at reform was the National Scholarship program, which sought out able insolvents from all parts of the nation and guaranteed them four years of study, free from term-time work...
Abnormally Developed. Under their Five Year Plan, the Communists proclaimed that industry must be shifted from the old seaboard cities to new centers in the interior. One of the first moves: transplant Shanghai's textile mills, heart of the city's industry, to cotton-growing areas. Last spring came an even stiffer edict. "It is absolutely necessary to reduce the population," decreed the city's Communist People's Congress. The reported goal: 50%. Explained the newspaper Sin Wen Daily: "Shanghai was abnormally developed ... for the benefit of imperialism, bureaucratic capital and feudalism...
...Eastern seaboard, badly hurricane-hit last year, braced itself. The prose of the press and the voices of radio newsmen rose to a high pitch. Weathermen warned everyone to take precautions...
EAST COAST GAS WARS are forcing bie producers to chop prices to retailers. With some Manhattan service stations selling gas as low as 15.8? per gal., Socony Mobil, Esso Standard Oil and others have cut wholesale prices up to ½? per gal. in most of the seaboard marketing area from Maine to Washington, D.C., the first price reduction in nearly a year...