Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When its two-ocean fleet is complete, the U.S. will have 32 battleships-17 spang new, 15 of the old fleet. And the rest of its new ships (including eleven more carriers, 54 cruisers, 192 destroyers, 73 submarines) are taking shape apace. Good example: Portsmouth Navy Yard announced last week that it hoped to keep up with its "usual record"-a new submarine launched every six weeks...
...Hell, Frank," griped Rogers, "I've got to fly across Australia and the Indian Ocean and Africa and the Atlantic Ocean and the United States-but I'll be there...
Mining the Ocean. A year ago magnesium was extracted from only one source, Michigan's brine wells; by only one enterprising producer, Dow Chemical Co.; and by only one method, electrolysis of molten magnesium chloride recovered from salt water. This is a chemical trick so old that it is known as a prior art and is not patentable. Last winter Trust-Buster Thurman Arnold's division of the Department of Justice sued Dow as a monopoly, but the chief reason that Dow had magnesium all to itself was that before the U.S. began rushing warplanes there...
...Armored Force will not be so rapid, because many of the new tanks are to go to the British and probably to the Russians. Even so, a lot will be left over for the U.S., for shipping space limits the number that can be sent across the ocean...
...Centerline Godspeed, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox and Rear Admiral William Henry Purnell ("Spike") Blandy, chief of Navy Ordnance, had good reason to rub their hands with satisfaction. Navy Ordnance is in good shape, although it is faced with 1) the monumental job of fitting out a two-ocean navy; 2) supplying ordnance to Great Britain and her allies; 3) arming Coast Guard vessels and Army transports; 4) preparing to arm U.S. merchant ships...