Word: harbors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nova Scotia, excited fishermen and the captain of a pilot boat swore that they had seen an unidentified "submarine" cruise along the coast, enter Halifax Harbor. Canadian destroyers, minesweepers, and patrol planes searched fruitlessly. Nova Scotia is also a favorite resort of sea serpents...
...Fleet's holiday mood changed to one of anxious preparation. Fueling started at emergency speed to fill all the Fleet's tanks and bunkers in three days instead of the normal twelve. Guessing that they might be bound much farther west than California, perhaps to Pearl Harbor or beyond, commissary officers laid in for their crews a six-week supply of fresh milk, fresh vegetables, including tons of spinach. And orders were to unship all old ammunition, take aboard new. Gunners knowingly noticed that the new projectiles for their big guns were colored differently from target ammunition...
Night attack from the air while warships are at sea is not very feasible. But where ships lie close together in harbor the chances of hits from the air are much greater. Even a bomb exploding in the water 50 ft. from a ship acts as a depth charge and may do serious damage...
TIME'S timeliness occurs too often to be mere happenstance. Last fortnight Thomas G. Thompson, Director of the Oceanographic Laboratories of the University of Washington at Seattle and Friday Harbor, wrote me that Matthew Fontaine Maury and Williard Gibbs were two of the world's most unappreciated geniuses. I had never heard more of Gibbs than his name, and was casting about in my mind to know how to get the best slant on him in the least time and with the most efficient method. Lo and behold: TIME'S Gibbs article [TIME, Feb. 20], for which...
...Commonwealth, it will become the easternmost U. S. possession, 3,300 mi. beyond Hawaii, only 1,500 mi. from Manila. Regardless of the Philippines' status as a trade protectorate (which Franklin Roosevelt has recommended extending beyond 1946 to 1960), the Navy has pictured Guam, with its potentially fine harbor of Apra, as a likely Pacific outpost. If heavily fortified it would move the U. S. first line of Pacific defense just that much farther away from the U. S. mainland, into an arc far outside of the Alaska-Hawaii-Samoa defense line (see map). The Navy conceives that...