Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just three weeks ago, the Harvard swim team appeared to be a heavy favorite to win the three-day Eastern Seaboard Swimming Championship that begins at Yale this afternoon...
Succulent Dish. A pioneer shark promoter is New Orleans' Preston Battistella, 50, one of the biggest fish wholesalers on the Eastern seaboard. In 1973, when he started handling shark meat, Battistella sold 60,000 Ibs.; in 1975 his volume was more than 300,000 Ibs. His biggest breakthrough came after he invited the New Orleans school board to lunch and served them "fish Creole." When he identified the succulent dish as shark, selling for only 75? per lb., v. $3.50 per lb. for pompano or snapper, he landed a three-month contract to sell the school system...
Driving South, on the Eastern Seaboard. From here to Washington, D.C. there is one set of driving circumstances, and past Washington there is another. At first there are a lot of tolls and cities and tricky interchanges, and you have to be on your toes. From here to New York, it's all pretty familiar: Mass Pike, through the middle of Connecticut, New Haven, Bridgeport, the Bronx. Northern Connecticut is the prettiest part; the Connecticut coast is old and industrial. Outside of New York City you pass what must be the world's biggest cemetery and a White Castle where...
...confections containing far more than the legally allowable quantity of coliform bacteria. The bacteria are commonly found in drinking water and dairy products; in small amounts they are nontoxic, but large quantities of them can cause illness. Gold says that bacteria-laden Good Humors were sold throughout the Eastern seaboard and as far west as Kansas...
...court battle, though, will not delay Conrail's debut. The consolidated system will stretch westward from the Eastern seaboard through 15 states to St. Louis, hauling more than a third of Northeastern freight. During the next decade, Conrail would spend $1.84 billion in taxpayers' money and another $4.2 billion of its own earnings and funds from private investors for rehabilitation of the badly maintained and accident-prone system; it would lay 540 miles of new track a year and replace 3.4 million ties (in June, derailment of seven cars of an Erie-Lackawanna freight train in Scranton...