Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...76th, which still dragged its wounded length along. This session had sat almost as long as any Congress, had approved more peacetime appropriations: $23,135,740,635,15. (Even the 23-odd billions did not include long-range commitments of $4,000,000,000 for the two-ocean Navy...
...cruisers from Bathurst shelled Libreville, Gabon's capital, for hours to prepare for a landing by Free French forces under General René de Larminat, Chief of Staff of the French Army in Syria before France fell. The British denied any shelling, but said they had forced the ocean-going French submarine Poncelet to be scuttled off Gabon. Vichy said Libreville's attackers, who landed on both sides of the town and surrounded it, were French colonial troops from garrisons in Equatorial Africa, led by "criminal former officers." They had some bombers and made things hot for defenders...
...from the beginning of this war, now as in the first World War, now as in the Napoleonic wars, the outcome depends upon the control of the Atlantic Ocean. In the end the victory will go to the powers which can use the ocean to supply themselves and can cut off their enemies from the non-European world. For Europe cannot be conquered in Europe. Europe cannot be organized as a self-contained empire. Europe cannot live within Europe. Europe cannot be at peace within itself unless it is at peace with the outer world...
...Hitler's victories on the land of Europe did not finish the war. This is the reason why even the invasion of Britain or the destruction of Britain from the air would only be the means to an end, the means to the control of the Atlantic Ocean. This is the reason why the renewal of his war against British shipping is much the most serious of all his efforts...
Sixteen hundred ships a year called at Pará (now Belém do Pará); and a thousand miles up the orchid-stinking Amazon ocean freighters pulled up to the $40,000,000 stone pier and floating dock at Manaus. They took away a single cargo, bolachas (crude rubber balls). They brought a more varied one: pink tiles, champagne, pâté de foie gras, grand pianos, gold watches, diamond rings, French lingerie for rubber kings' naked native wives, French mistresses to replace them. Manaus went cultural, built a $5,000,000 opera house, closed it again...