Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hats on for the King. A saddlemaker, upholsterer, clockmaker and silversmith before he took up painting, Peale as a young man sailed up and down the seaboard, painting pictures for his fare. When his fellow townsmen at Annapolis offered to underwrite a trip to study at Benjamin West's London studio, young Peale seized the opportunity. Once there, Peale made no attempt to hide his Revolutionary sympathies, ostentatiously refused to lift his hat when the royal carriage passed. But he worked hard. Back home again after two years in London, Peale quickly made a reputation with wealthy Philadelphians...
After eight years of waiting, a small, nonscheduled U.S. airline finally came into its own last week. In Washington. President Eisenhower approved a CAB recommendation giving Seaboard & Western Airlines Inc. a five-year certificate to fly a regular transatlantic freight service from New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore to seven European nations, thus making S. & W. the first U.S.-flag, all-cargo carrier to Europe...
...reporting on the lack of success of the Navy's recently declassified "Project Scud." While maintaining a neutral position, Dr. Spar agreed that the thing should be tried. Backed by the Office of Naval Research, he organized a two-year experiment that covered the U.S.'s eastern seaboard. During the periods of January to April 1953 and December 1953 to April 1954, Dr. Spar and his assistants at New York University selected 37 "meteorological situations." Ten hours ahead of the time that they thought the clouds would be ripe for seeding, they telephoned Norfolk, Va. When zero hour...
Because the Easterns draw a wealth of talent from the whole seaboard area, however, the Elis may be prevented from taking the large number of second places which enabled them to edge the Crimson, 44 to 40, last Saturday...
...scientists who date ancient objects by Carbon 14. it is already a serious nuisance and threatens to get worse. Southwestern laboratories near the Nevada atom-bomb testing ground have found it impossible to use Carbon 14; there is too much competing radioactivity in their vicinity. Even on the Eastern seaboard, Carbon 14 work at the University of Pennsylvania has often been stopped by a radioactive cloud drifting slowly overhead. The "background radiation" gets so strong that the voice of Carbon 14, like a soprano in a boiler factory, cannot be heard above...