Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smiles were sinister. They snatched away winter's ice-laden, cloud cover for convoys plodding across the Atlantic and up the coast of Africa. They spread the horizons and smoothed the swells for Germany's swarm of new submarines. They gave fair weather and good hunting to ocean-ranging bombers...
...tied up by the hundreds to rust, were sold or junked. By 1935 U. S. shipping began to scrape bottom again, a miserable 3,065,000 tons. Over 75% of the merchant fleet had sailed 15 of its 20-year effective life. By 1942 close to 92% of the ocean-going fleet built for World War I will be hope lessly old and obsolete...
...Admiral Nimitz probably had the laugh on his listeners. The Naval Academy at Annapolis will never be able to supply the officer demand of the two-ocean Navy. To man the U. S. fleets of 1946-47, the Navy will need 36,000 officers, 15,000 more to man its planes. Last summer, at the start of the two-ocean program, the Navy had only 10,817 officers all told. And it will get no more than 700 annually from Annapolis' expanded enrollment (beginning next June...
During his seven terms in the House, the Minnesota Congressman has advocated a two-ocean navy, has plumped loud & long for U. S. defense measures, from fortifying Guam to building a larger air force. Year ago he horrified the Navy's high command by proposing that they build some 80,000-ton battleships-two and a half times bigger than their mightiest dreadnoughts...
...fireside chat bring frenzy to every American hearth. Control of her own destiny as well as a British victory is a primary goal of the United States. If ships without men are enough for England's needs, weakened as our merchant fleet and one and a half ocean navy are, we can better Lend-Lease-lose ships than lives. When we are asked to give blood as well as iron for British victory, then the question must be faced as one of war or peace. If the U. S. Navy steams into belligerent waters, with it drifts the last vestiges...