Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Suez, too, perhaps depended the issue of war or peace for Japan, for the fall of Suez if the canal remained intact would bring the Mediterranean-bound Italian and French Fleets into the Indian Ocean. With peaceful expansion southward apparently blocked by The Netherlands East Indies (see p. 35), Japan must soon decide whether it can afford to risk expansion...
West from the Virgin Islands toward Haiti stood S.S. America, a thwarted ship in a restricted ocean. Biggest (27,000 gross tons) and fanciest merchantman ever to slide down a U.S. way, she had been conceived by the Maritime Commission for the blue-ribbon North Atlantic passenger trade. But before her birth was complete, World War II and the Neutrality Act closed in her horizons. Since she left her fitting-out dock ten months ago, her life has been a pleasant tedium of Caribbean cruises. Last week adventure crooked an imperious finger to this immaculate loafer of the Antilles...
Precious supplies of tin, rubber, aluminum at the bottom of the ocean would leave us in a pretty position to follow Teddy Roosevelt's advice: "Speak softly and carry a big stick." We will speak softly all right if we permit Britain to go down, but Adolf will carry the big stick...
...mind to A. B. ("Cyclone") Davis of Dallas, who runs for everything; to a politically unknown ex-West Pointer who buys radio time to demand an immediate declaration of war against Germany, Japan, Italy; to old Basil Muse Hatfield, "Commodore of Inland Rivers," who is campaigning for a five-ocean navy...
Last week President Roosevelt promised to sell or lease two ships to Eire to carry her food home. But, said Eire's Defense Minister Frank Aiken, at least twelve ships would be needed to get the food across the ocean in "reasonable time...