Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until the U. S. owns a two-ocean fleet-and such a fleet cannot be built in less than seven years-the Canal is the only insurance the U. S. has against leaving one of its coasts undefended against attack. If an enemy should succeed in blocking or capturing the Canal, that insurance would no longer exist. Hence the first paradox of U. S. strategy: the most vital point for the defense of the continental U. S. is an isthmus 1,300 miles south of Miami...
...attack was from Japan in the Pacific, and Japan's No. 3 world Navy had to operate from too far away. Its long supply lines could be cut at will, even by an inferior Navy, from the Philippines, Hawaii, Alaska and, if the Japanese got past the great ocean fortress of Hawaii, by flanking attacks from the U. S. Pacific Coast...
...needs a great deal of rubber-600,000 tons a year-for elastics, from fingerstalls to truck tires. Practically all (98%) of this rubber is lugged across 8,000 miles of Pacific Ocean from the Far East-British Malaya, The Netherlands East Indies, Burma, Thailand, French Indo-China. Japan, bent on wider control in East Asia, has long had its eye on these parts. And if the British fleet should be destroyed and the U. S. fleet sent into the Atlantic to guard against invasion from Europe, Japan might well be able to grab this Rubberland...
...Columbus, Ohio, where Governor Bricker refused to reinstate a canceled contract that would have permit ted them to hold their national convention at the State Fair Grounds; 2) at Clarks burg, W. Va., where they were struck from relief rolls for refusal to salute the flag; 3) at Ocean City, N. J., where Mrs. Ethel R. Winkler was jailed as a public nuisance for passing out Witness tracts. Last week Witnesses were given two searching examinations, one philosophical, one practical...
With Japan back at her tiresome game of arming with U. S. materials-this time in the very week when President Roosevelt signed a bill to build a two-ocean Navy-U. S. steelmen (especially little steelmen) began to grumble again. How could they be expected to expand production for Defense, they asked, if the "damn-japs" were to be allowed to diddle the scrap price, perhaps clean out the country's junk yards in the process? They pointed out that the West Coast, where scrap consumption is certain to grow with expansion for Defense, has encountered scrap shortages...