Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more blow at rail transportation. The executive secretary of the National Coal Association urged that defense power needs be met with quickly constructed coal-burning steam plants, since the Seaway would be years abuilding. The Middle West, which for years wanted the Seaway, imagining grandiose pictures of ocean liners docking at Chicago and Cleveland, has cooled off. Its big export trade has fallen off, its agriculture is already aided by farm benefit payments...
...projects of State planning-like Russia's White Sea Canal, Germany's Strength Through Joy automobile factories, France's Maginot Line-it was the kind of Big Job that made a strong appeal to the imagination. The thought of warships abuilding on sheltered inland seas, of ocean-going freighters plowing to the docks of Detroit, appealed to many a hardhead aware of the labyrinthine economic dangers of the project. It was impossible to estimate the cultural consequences of so vast an undertaking, the changed relations with Canada that it would involve, the impact on the traditionally isolationist...
...four years Ornithologist Charles E. Gillham of the Biological Survey in Washington has trekked into northern Canada, to ask natives questions about the Ross's goose. It was suspected that their breeding ground was somewhere near the mouth of the Perry River, which runs into the Arctic Ocean at Queen Maud Gulf, southeast of big Victoria Island. Last summer Gillham chartered a plane, flew over the Perry River region, saw so many of the birds that he was certain the breeding grounds were there. But floating ice in the bay prevented a landing...
...dusty, rusting Cramp shipyards on the Delaware River, which built wooden clippers, Civil War ironclads, World War I destroyers. The recently reorganized, refinanced Cramp Shipbuilding Co. (TIME, Sept. 23) got a $113,822,000 contract to build six cruisers for the U. S. Navy's second-ocean fleet, an additional $9,500,000 to rehabilitate and expand the abandoned yards...
Diesel was plagued by business troubles almost all his life, but in 1913 things were going fairly well. The Selandia, first big ocean-going ship powered by Diesels, had voyaged from Copenhagen to Bangkok and back. Herr & Frau Diesel still had their big house in Munich, entertained many U. S. engineers there. They took a vacation in Italy. In September, Rudolf Diesel set out for England to see a Diesel plant inaugurated there. He and two friends took a Channel steamer at Antwerp. They had dinner, strolled on deck, went to their staterooms. When the boat docked at Harwich, Diesel...