Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mother Kelly's. Across Biscayne Bay, on the Miami side, painted men danced and profaned sweet songs at the Club Ha-Ha. In the casinos at Ben Marden's Colonial Inn, the Sunny Isles Club, the Royal Palm, gamblers crowded the roulette and dice tables. On the ocean side, Glamor Row flung its facade of stucco and neon at the sky and the sea: the new Lord Tarleton, the Versailles, the older Roney Plaza, many another hostelry where the cheaper rooms went...
...Indian Ocean has become one of Britain's vital supply lines, across which go the resources of India. Australia and New Zealand, both to Britain and the Near East. Keeping it open is one of the primary objectives of British strategy. The conquest of East Africa, which last week progressed satisfactorily, is directed toward clearing the Red Sea and African coast of Axis threats to the line. Last week the British showed they were awake at sea as well...
...lies at Ipiutak on Point Hope, a bleak sandspit in the Arctic Ocean, where no trees and little grass survive endless gales at 30° below zero. But where houses lay more than 2,000 years ago, underlying refuse makes grass and moss grow greener. The scientists could easily discern traces of long avenues and hundreds of dwelling sites. A mile long, a quarter-mile wide, this ruined city was perhaps as big as any in Alaska today (biggest: Juneau...
FORTUNE'S gorgeously illustrated document ranges over the strategy of sky war, turns the aircraft industry inside out, dabbles in aeronautical research, peeks prophetically into a future wherein "the whole world is the shoreline of the universal ocean of air." But its most telling pages seek to smash an illusion and restore a faith. The illusion, mass production of military airplanes, was stimulated by 1) Franklin Roosevelt's call for 50,000 planes a year, 2) Henry Ford's dream of 1,000 planes a day, 3) Walter Reuther's dream of 500 planes...
...power, New York Times Military Expert Hanson W. Baldwin plumps for more bases (in the Galápagos Islands, in Canada and on the strategic shoulder of Brazil), suggests long-range bombers be withheld from Britain to patrol our "moats" and fill in for the two-ocean navy until its completion...