Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such pleasant obstacles were minor compared to those which began to confront the building gang after the prefabricated materials and equipment had made the perilous ocean trip in 30 shiploads and had been piled up on the 15-acre site on the unoccupied English landscape...
...first emphasis has been upon the danger of bombing. It is true that there has been no bombing in Europe ever any distance even remotely comparable to the span of the Atlantic ocean. But it has been easy to picture bombers as flying over our cities--and exciting to appoint fire-wardens, organize defense corps, and in general put or communities, large and small, in a state of readiness for blitzkreig. Now comes an announcement from Lloyd's London, the final authority on the element of chance in this world, that they are ready to give insurance against damage...
...strange, monkey-like animal, probably the most sophisticated exponent of his species, is well acquainted with all the luxuries of air and ocean travel. He is now comfortably settled in Cambridge, happy with the eggs in his cage which he can squash and lap up at will...
...canal, built another dam, a lock and a powerhouse, diverting some of he Santee's impounded waters into the Caller Cooper River, which empties into the sea at Charleston. (The Cooper, as every Charleston schoolboy knows, "joins the Ashley River at Charleston to form the Atlantic Ocean...
...When this program was first presented to the shipbuilders," wrote Texan Admiral Sam Robinson, "it was regarded by them as being nothing short of fantastic. ... It was generally felt . . . that only an incorrigible optimist could expect that the goal [a two-ocean fleet by 1947] would ever be reached...