Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...linked hemispheric defense to freedom of the seas: "We include the right to the peaceful use of the Atlantic Ocean and of the Pacific Ocean." He denied that "the course the Americas are following is slowly drawing one or all of us into war." Said he: "This country wants no war with any nation. This hemisphere wants no war with any nation." He salved South American pride with the statement that newly acquired U. S. naval bases were open to other republics of the Western Hemisphere for cooperative use. And he came to a defiant climax...
...every Axis attack only confirmed the fact that Britain's ocean lanes were still open. Its losses for the week were being replaced by the purchase of 19 U. S. freighters, each of 10,000 tons or less. Boasted First Lord of the Admiralty Albert Victor Alexander: "The stream of new ships is now coming steadily in from the yards. . . . Great convoys of food, raw materials, arms and men . . . sailed and arrived with clockwork regularity. . . . We cannot be beaten...
...Republican Convention opened with the most popular of the new songs currently reflecting American surge of patriotism, W.P.A.-written: 1. Ballad for Americans. 2. God Bless America. 3. I Am an American. 4. Our Side of the Ocean. 5. And They Lynched Him on a Tree...
...Ruyter and Trelawny (dressed as an Arab) lay on deck, gazing at the Southern Cross during "endless discussion of freedom and revolution." By day they sank other ships, rescued no survivors. Trelawny rescued a sheik's daughter from African pirates, married her, took her privateering around the Indian Ocean until she died (of poison). Brokenhearted Trelawny burned her body on a pyre...
...June 1937 the last total solar eclipse, longest in more than twelve centuries (7 min. 4 sec. at maximum), was mostly wasted on the Pacific Ocean, where science could not study it. Last week a good enough eclipse (more than four minutes) traveled clear across South America, but it also was wasted. Two parties of U. S. scientists who traveled all the way to the shadow belt with their equipment got virtually no results because clouds veiled the blackened sun. Next chance for science : 1941 in central Asia...