Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles between the grain elevators and ore docks of Duluth and the broad mouth of the St. Lawrence, the inland waters drop 602 feet, roar over rapids, dodge many an island. The Seaway project would make these waters a marine highway at least 27 feet deep, so that ocean vessels could sail from Lake ports to the whole maritime world. This would require at least 18 big locks, many canals, much dredging. Estimated cost, including facilities already built: $379,252,000-about the cost of the Panama Canal...
...huge war zone which Germany herself laid out-an area extending from Norway to Greenland, almost to Spain. If such sinkings continue, U.S. ships bound for other places remote from fighting fronts, will be in danger.* Henceforth the U.S. would either have to recall its ships from the ocean or enforce its right to the free use of the seas...
...record the fact that the U.S. is fixing up British merchant ships as well as warships for the Battle of the Atlantic. Of the $4,000,000,000 of Lend-Lease aid to Britain so far allocated, only $26,856,000 is for "testing, reconditioning, etc." of ocean vessels, plus $13,918,880 for naval supplies and $7,611,000 for "services." But $26,000,000 can buy a lot of repairs and provide quickly many times as many ships for the Battle of the Atlantic as the same amount of money spent on new construction. For a seriously damaged...
...Here we meet while from across the Atlantic Ocean the hammers and lathes of the United States signal in a rising hum their message of encouragement and their promise of swift and ever-growing...
...August. Colombia (19.8% of the quota), producing valuable special grades, raised its minimum prices nine times last winter. Brazilian growers and speculators, with 2,300,000 bags of quota coffee still to ship, are holding it back, waiting for still higher prices. Meanwhile shipping space is getting scarce and ocean freight costs are mounting. Brazil is also toying with the idea of setting a coffee price (11?) below which it will not sell...