Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real stake in this war is the command of the maritime communications of the Atlantic Ocean." Last week Major George Fielding Eliot, military expert, so reasoned from the British action in seizing part of the French Fleet. The sudden U. S. agitation about the Monroe Doctrine and a realization that command of the Atlantic was vital to U. S. security confirmed this view. Alone, said Major Eliot, the U. S. Fleet cannot control the Atlantic, must therefore prolong British resistance and if possible keep the British Fleet in being. On these tenets he laid down in the New York Herald...
First contingents of British children arrived in Canada last week, shipped over to preserve them from Adolf Hitler's total war. Contingents of German war prisoners also landed in Canada to be sent in boxcars to prison camps far from civilization. In mid-ocean one man "scuttled himself" by leaping from a porthole. Others on arrival struck a final blow for Germany by destroying the British gas masks which had been issued them...
...perhaps $1,000 a day) just tied to a pier. There was no hope of putting her into the South American trade (U. S. exports up 59% over last year), for the Grace Line and the American Republics Line had that continent sewed up. But in the U. S. ocean shipping business, the Government taketh away, but also giveth. Fortnight ago Franklin Roosevelt signed the Bailey-Bland bill, authorizing the Maritime Commission to absorb all or part of the deficits of vessels that have been forced by the Neutrality Act to abandon old routes, ply new ones...
...readers to whom, as geography or politics, the Pacific is still a great waste of water filled with hidden reefs, treacherous winds and currents, Author Van Loon's book is no chart. His concern is with the explorers of this vast, lonely, misnamed ocean - from prehistoric Polynesian vikings and the Bounty's Captain Bligh, of open-boat fame, to Charles Darwin, who spent four highly uncomfortable years among its atolls, pondering the theory of the survival of the fittest, between bouts of seasickness aboard H. M. S. Beagle...
...does fall to Hitler, Mr. Lippmann said, the U. S. will be isolated completely. "The question for us is not whether we shall send an army to Europe but whether we shall use our naval, air, economic and political power to prevent Hitler from obtaining command of the Atlantic Ocean...