Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That a trustee (later identified by another trustee as Dr. John H. Whiticar) had been elected to the board after his sponsor argued that he had a string of Ocean City restaurants and fishing boats worth $1,000,000 and "we should put him on the board with the hope that he would give the $1,000,000 to the University...
...class, PT-10 is essentially for offshore patrol. She carries 3,000 miles of cruising in her gasoline tanks, could cross the Atlantic if need be. But if they ever do go to war, best bet is that the Navy's new boats will cross the ocean on the decks of battleships or cruisers, or be shipped across the continent on flatcars...
...relentless, silent hunt of vast proportions was afoot last week. The field was the gale-blasted barrens of the North Atlantic Ocean. The hunters were patient, powerful units of the Royal Navy, equipped with aircraft which soared ceaselessly like gulls of vengeance far up the shores of Greenland and Iceland, high over the crinkled fjords of farthest Norway. They hunted a killer-the German surface raider, probably the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer or Lützow, which last fortnight fell upon a big British convoy in Lat. 52°N., Long. 32°W., halfway between Newfoundland and Eire (TIME...
American Export was just a good ocean shipping line until it set up its airlines subsidiary in 1937. resolved to fly the Atlantic. This made it a natural enemy of Pan Am. Round I ended in the Senate corridors last September when the Appropriations Committee unexpectedly failed to provide $500,000 that was to start Am Ex's preliminary mail flights to Lisbon (TIME, Oct. 14). Last week, undaunted Am Ex officials rolled with this punch. Led by quick-smiling, deep-voiced Vice President James Murchie Eaton, they went to Baltimore, threw a party aboard their new ocean freighter...
...Caribbean villainy had doomed Balboa to sure punishment when by chance he discovered the one thing which could save his neck: a vast ocean for the King of Spain...