Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ocean navy, complete with the swarms of auxiliaries and little boats (like Patrol Craft) that it will need for the full life at sea, is being built in 72 private yards and eleven Navy yards, from Bath, Me. to Cavite, P. I. Most of the big ships (17 battleships, twelve carriers, 54 cruisers) are being built on the Atlantic coast, but 204 destroyers are parceled out all over the place-to such firms as Gulf Shipbuilding Corp. of Chickasaw, Ala., Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Consolidated Steel Corp. at Orange, Tex. Exclusive of combat types, Chairman Vinson's summary listed...
...accompaniment of clicking knitting needles, Leach attacked both Charles A. and Anne Lindbergh for their isolationist stand. "Lindbergh is Maginot-minded," he said. "He thinks of American defense only in terms of the Atlantic Ocean and 20,000,000 men of military...
Luckner? Though none of the prisoners could identify the captors, survivors of an Indian Ocean sinking who reached Hong Kong reported that the biggest troublemaker in the Pacific was the onetime British-owned Glengarry, a 7,100-ton merchantman captured by the Germans at Copenhagen and fitted out as an auxiliary cruiser. Its skipper: Count Felix von Luckner, who hoodwinked the British for eight months in World War I, while his Seeadler ran up a score of 15 ships in the Atlantic and Pacific, who boasted his exploits had never cost a life...
...Bats Fly. A doodad for ships sounding the ocean bottom is the echo-recorder, which shoots down supersonic waves (sound of higher pitch than the human ear can hear), gauges the depth by the time it takes the waves to bounce back to the surface. The same principle enables airplanes to keep a continuous record of their altitude. But, long before there were any ships, planes or men, bats invented the same system for blind flying. Able both to produce and to hear supersonic sounds, they utter a steady, staccato stream of supersonic squeaks, keep away from ob-tacles from...
...parading with his local fascist party? When it will be impossible to critize fascism, lest it disturb relations with our good friends and customers beyond the seas. Hitler won't have to invade America until it is so torn be inner conflict that the German army could cross the ocean in canoes. It is time to end these theories of invasion, so easily refuted by calculations of gross tonnage. When Hitler gets ready to invade the United States will have a government unwilling and unable to resist...