Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...during a week's visit to the Chemurgic Institute which he preached mid-Trinity farmers into founding at Romayor. Last week he wrote me that he is entering the Senatorial campaign himself on the platform of: Chemurgy (i.e., industrial rather than food crops from the farm); a five-ocean Navy; "all-out aid for America"; a national lottery to help...
...Gatun Lake, in the Panama Canal Zone, floats a little fleet of motorboats. They are blue-grey, stubby, old-so old, some of them, that they are kept lake-worthy mainly by the heroic ingenuity of their soldier crews. The soldiers who run the boats call them the third-ocean fleet. They are the supply boats of one of the finest, least-known outfits in the U.S. Army: the Panama Coast Artillery Command...
...with Marshal Pétain's announcement that France and the French colonial Empire are to be put, regardless of what the French people may think, at the disposal of Hitler. The French Empire . . . occupies positions of the greatest importance in the Caribbean . . . Atlantic . . Mediterranean . . . Red Sea . . . Indian Ocean . . Pacific...
Chances for a U.S. victory, implies Puleston, are very bright providing 1 ) we maintain our naval superiority, 2) our fleet is kept concentrated (either in the Atlantic or Pacific) until the two-ocean navy is completed, 3) Singapore, Guam and Manila are adequately fortified. Invasion of Japan would not be necessary and the Nipponese Navy, to escape being bombed out of the Inland Sea, would probably have to fight a decisive full-dress battle- which Journalist Hauser, no naval expert, insists high Japanese naval officials would seek to avoid...
...recent "intensive operations" in the Mediterranean-i.e., the Balkan campaign. Losses elsewhere, therefore, were only 301,070 tons-lower than total losses for any of the past twelve months except May 1940. And included in this figure were losses in the South Atlantic, off Africa, in the Indian Ocean, in the Far East. Apparently the convoy system was beginning to tell; perhaps the urgency for U.S. assistance in protecting shipping might be elsewhere than in the narrow northern lanes between America and Britain...