Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Admiral Distance. The Pacific Ocean is 68,634,000 square miles of blue, dun and yellow water; of wastes where almost no life exists; of islands where life, riches, poverty are all superabundant. Biggest of oceans, it is big enough to swallow all the land in the world and still have room to spare. Its distances dwarf any that even big-minded Yankees are used to thinking about: New York is 3,132 miles from San Francisco; Manila is 6,238 miles from San Francisco, 9,393 miles west of Panama...
...ocean navy...
...inter-ocean canal for navy...
...lives of their brethren in order that the Allies may dictate peace terms favorable to America as well as to themselves, all while we are enjoying a war boom here, with freedom to swim, hike, enjoy many sports, as contrasted to the horrors of the battlefields across the ocean...
...democratic way of life. Wherever I mix with those of my own age I encounter that provincial blindness, apathy if you will, which blithely believes that though the whole world is dominated by brute force and the civilized community of nations destroyed, America ("They have to come across the ocean, don't they.") will go merrily on with freedom and opportunity...