Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow ? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years...
...more numerous of the two groups. The CRIMSON, which with the "Progressive," the Student Union magazine, has been a spokesman for the isolationist camp since the beginning, urged all aid to the Allies short of war as a means of keeping American soldiers on this side of the ocean. For if England and France should begin to loss the CRIMSON declared, pressure on this country to enter the war would become too great to resist...
...attacking a warship flying the U.S. flag? The evidence for it was that the Greer had been altered in appearance so that she does not closely resemble the 50 destroyers traded to Britain (see cut, p.11), that British destroyers are not apt to be found roaming the ocean alone- they have convoy work to do. But the attack took place at noon. Since destroyers are submarine-killers, a submarine would be loath to attack at midday unless there was fog or storm (common in those waters). If visibility was low the U-boat commander may not have recognized the ship...
...stocks somewhere between keel-laying and launching (therefore not included in Navy's totals) were four battleships (including two 45,000-tonners, Iowa and New Jersey), a swarm of cruisers, destroyers and submarines. All but a few units of its two-ocean fleet should be in commission...
Last week the Navy stepped up its recruiting goal to 13,000 men per month for the rest of this year, 15,000 per month in 1942. Object: to have 369,000 enlisted men in two-ocean service by next June...