Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disastrous if the great masses of weapons, munitions and instruments of war of all kinds made with the toil and skill of American hands at the cost of the United States and loans to us under the Aid-to-Britain Bill were to sink into the depths of the ocean and never reach the hard-pressed fighting line. That would be lamentable to us, and I cannot believe it would be found acceptable to the proud and resolute people of the United States." Winston Churchill's words added up to a desperate warning: unless there is a turn...
Because the Government is considering a plan to draft seaworthy vessels out of intercoastal trade to meet the growing shortage in ocean shipping, the railroads last week were in a fair way to get back most of the freight they lost to the Panama Canal. But the carriers-already pressed for freight cars by the defense boom-had good cause to be frightened as well as pleased...
...people of Europe slept sluggishly, despairing of deliverance. In the countries which conquest had not yet reached they slept fitfully, aware even in sleep that a blow might fall before morning. The conquerors, too, knew fear, for fear had conquered them first and turned them into conquerors. Across the ocean in the Americas, people who were still free had begun to feel a strange new force coming nearer-a force that seemed irresistible, that turned courage into fear...
Last week Congressman Maas felt good and looked it. After the Senate had passed a $3,446,384,000 Navy appropriation bill for 1942, he told why: five of the 17 battleships to be built for the U. S.'s two-ocean Navy will be 65,000-tonners (total displacement including armament and armor). They were contracted for last September, will cost about $130,000,000 apiece...
...nose on the Führer's face was the fact that the five new warships would be far & away the biggest ever built. By the time these monsters are finished (five years), the new, enlarged locks of the Panama Canal will let them pass from ocean to ocean...