Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...source. Hitler knows that he ... must . . . destroy liberty here in America and make this great nation part of his new Nazi world order. It is clear now to all of us that the onward march of Nazi barbarism must be stopped, or like the relentless tides of the ocean it will engulf the whole world...
...thousand miles up the steaming Amazon from the Atlantic Ocean, 15,000 feet over the crusty Andes from the Pacific, lies the only undrawn boundary remaining on the American continents. The 50,000 square miles of territory in dispute between Peru and Ecuador lie mostly between the Marañón and Napo Rivers, tributaries of the Amazon (plus a picayune area along the Pacific coast). They are made up of a little fertile highland, a little more barren mountainside and much more tangled jungle, from which come a bit of rubber and some desiccated human heads for the tourist...
...green material (some cadets had never seen the ocean); Jacksonville is turning out officer-aviators salty enough to handle posts with the fleet, sharp enough to fly the confusion of gadgets which form a modern warplane. By the time they are commissioned, Jacksonville's cadets find nothing paradoxical in the traditional Navy, have faith in big battlewagons as the backbone of a fleet. A separate air force? Heresy! They are Navy...
...defense" project, the Seaway's best point is that shipbuilders' ways at Ashtabula and Lorain on the Great Lakes could be put to work on ocean vessels in a couple of years. The Navy is already building .small submarines at Manitowoc, Wis. Said Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr.: "Should the Axis powers be victorious, they would commence a shipbuilding race against the U.S. with the shipbuilding facilities of the entire European coasts, which are several times larger than our own. In that event...
...More effective use of ocean and Great Lakes barges: 30,000 tons...