Word: anchored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shippers, anxiously waiting for Congress to chart a shipping policy, could finally weigh anchor. Congress passed the Bland Bill, which provides for 1) the disposal of surplus war-built ships; and 2) refunds to ship operators to reimburse them for the high cost of ships purchased during the war. From the vast U.S. merchant fleet of 40,080,000 tons, 61% of all the ships in the world, the U.S. Maritime Commission will put on the block 2,000 or more slow Liberty ships, about 400 faster Victory ships and C-type cargo liners, and about 550 speedy tankers. Selling...
...tests will be necessary: 1) upon a fleet at anchor in shallow water, where divers could go down later to examine the hulls of sunken ships; 2) upon a fleet in deep water. Both are extremely difficult to arrange. In neither case can the ships be manned. The shallow water test must be made where no coastal lands will be affected; it must be far from important fishing grounds and from ocean currents which might carry radioactive water to populated shores...
...ethnology was flimsy; Turks said the claimed area's Georgian and Armenian population is under 2%. The Kremlin had larger considerations. On the whole vast sweep of Russia's western and southwestern border, Turkey is the one country without a pro-Soviet regime. Russia wants to anchor the line. If its pressure could bring a Moscow-influenced Turkish government, Russia might forget her claim to the coastal region...
...Military Intelligence in the crucial days of 1941. Into the record went a long series of Japanese code messages intercepted before Dec. 7. Most significant: instructions sent by Tokyo on Sept. 24, ordering a spy in Honolulu to divide Pearl Harbor into five sectors, report on the ships at anchor in each...
Bevin had his British anchor to windward; he was firm about Britain's role in western Europe: "I cannot help it if people have groundless suspicion. . . . But I must. . . go on with the task of building up friendship with our immediate neighbors...