Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...below). As President, he received from Congress the capstones of his defense program : 1) conscription of man power, along with unprecedented peacetime powers to draft industry as well; 2) a $5,000,000,000 supplemental Defense Bill, to equip the new Army and launch a world-beating two-ocean Navy...
...fifth attempt succeeded. Reason: the U. S. Navy. After scared Congressmen began appropriating for a two-ocean fleet this summer, Secretary Frank Knox wrote Philadelphia's supercautious Mayor Robert Eneas Lamberton: "The Navy is desirous of having Cramp's reopened at the earliest possible time." With every other U. S. ocean shipyard strained to practical capacity, the idleness of Cramp's six ways, huge gantries, echoing shops and foundries could not continue...
...another bulwark against a thrust from Asia, the U. S. defensively faces east toward Europe. For if Germany displaces Britain as mistress of the seas, the U. S. will have lost its insurance policy against trouble in the Atlantic: the British fleet. Until the U. S. has a two-ocean fleet, it faces the danger of surprise attack in whichever ocean is undefended...
...took Washington, fought in Louisiana. In 1863 a French Army entered Mexico City, set up an empire. In 1917-18 a U. S. Army crossed the Atlantic in the opposite direction. The only barrier there has ever been in the Atlantic has been a fleet that could control the ocean (and nowadays an adequate air force...
...Midlands remained a world armory and utensil centre; cutlery, precision instruments, cannon, armor plate, ammunition and ship machinery from Sheffield; locomotives, buttons, wedding rings, machine guns, brass bedsteads, safety pins, tires, automobiles from Birmingham; everything in pottery and porcelain from the six towns comprising Stoke-on-Trent; ocean-going hulls from yards at Barrow, Birkenhead and Liverpool...