Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...label, "Mr. Dewey's Senator," and voted and acted strictly according to his own lights. A pioneer Ikeman; he has nevertheless disagreed with the President on some issues (examples: he voted against the St. Lawrence Seaway, which he considered a threat to New York's seaboard interests, and the housing bill, which he called inadequate...
After the sneak attack by Hurricane Carol (TIME, Sept. 13), which took 68 lives and destroyed half a billion dollars' worth of New England property, the entire Atlantic seaboard was anxiously alerted for the next big seasonal storm to come rolling north. There was not long to wait. Before New England had half mopped up the mess left by Carol, Hurricane Dolly roared harmlessly by. Then came Edna...
...president of the University of Illinois; H. K. Newburn. former president of the University of Oregon; T. R. McConnell, former chancellor of the University of Buffalo). But more important than its products, says Hancher, is the lesson that S.U.I, has taught-"that culture is not limited to the Eastern seaboard or to a social elite, that Iowa is no longer an isolated pioneer prairie state, but that we are in the stream of Western culture and civilization, and all that is good in it should be a part...
...highest percentage of centenarians is in parts of the country where the stress and strain of living are supposed to be greatest," e.g., along the Eastern seaboard from Boston to Charleston and along the Mississippi, and not in such havens for the aging as California or Florida...
...readjustments were still being made in many an industry. In the petroleum industry, sales have not come up to summer estimates. As a result of overproduction, wholesale gasoline prices skidded on the Gulf Coast and Eastern seaboard, and retail-gas wars were flaring up east of the Rockies. The Texas Railroad Commission (which controls the state's oil production) announced that it had cut August allowables to 2,721,104 barrels a day because of a drop in demand...