Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This week signed the most whopping appropriations bill of all time in any nation: a $26,495,265,474 appropriation bill to pay for the addition of 25,000 planes to the Navy's sky force and to enlarge the Two-Ocean Navy...
...Created a War Shipping Administration (WSA) to control the operation, purchase, charter, requisition and use of all ocean vessels under the flag or control of the U.S. (except fighting ships and those engaged in coastwise, intercoastal and inland transportation). Purpose: to set up a shipping pool to serve military and economic strategy, i.e., to bring in rubber instead of tapioca. The new WSAdministrator: leathery, salty Rear Admiral Emory S. ("Jerry") Land, 63, head of the Maritime Commission...
...worse than that, this simple fact means that if the Japanese succeed in snatching the threatened Indies and threatened Free French New Caledonia, they will be able to cover almost half the Indian Ocean and more than half of Australia. Furthermore, they will be able to punch at three more potential Allied naval headquarters, Colombo, Sydney, Auckland...
...American Volunteer Group in Burma and China did little loafing. At Rangoon, on the ocean entry to the Burma Road, at Kunming, on its inner terminus, at many an airdrome between, A.V.G.'s100-odd U.S. pilots brightened last week's dark record of war in the Pacific with great valor and victories. Outnumbered, their slender stock of early-type P-40s diminished by ground strafing, crashes and a few casualties in the air, they still went by threes and sevens and tens against much larger Jap fighter-bomber formations. Said a spectator in Rangoon: "It looked like...
...Canadian liner Lady Hawkins skittered across a slick, black ocean. Scarcely 100 yards away a U-boat reared up out of the sea for the brief space of 60 seconds. The raider fingered the Lady coldly with a pair of searchlights. Then the Lady Hawkins shuddered under the impact of a torpedo. Her forward mast crashed. Over on her side careened the 7,988-ton liner. Passengers and crew tumbled into the sea. A second torpedo exploded in the Lady Hawkins' engine room and her career ended...