Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...today our first line of defense. Britain will now be fighting at terrific odds; she may crack beneath the strain just as France has done, but the British fleet must be saved from Hitler or we will find ourselves pawning our democracy in order to build a two ocean navy. Britain is today a very weak first line of defense. We must strengthen it immediately with supplies, planes, ships, and, if necessary, men. If Britain falls we must fight on the sea; the fall of France is only the beginning of a long struggle, but we must go into...
...already wings over and enflames hearts from the Alps to the Indian Ocean: conquer...
Ingalls' officials were most interested last week, however, in the fact that they had completed their first big ocean-going ship and made a profit on it. Moreover, they had done the job so cheaply that they expected to turn back money to the Maritime Commission, which limits profits to 10% on its contracts. What helped Ingalls to this astonishing record was the fact that it was streamlined...
...waves of the ocean would be the waves of German bombers-heavy, light and dive-which would precede the sea ferries and air-troop transports. Professor Banse long ago recommended Norfolk-Suffolk as a base for the G. E. F. because "the Great Ouse, which flows into the Wash, and a number of streams flowing into the Blackwater estuary . . . make the peninsula into a regular island, which provides an invading army with safe and roomy quarters from which it can threaten London, which is quite close and without natural defenses on that side-and also the industrial Midlands...
...citizen). By 1910 he had made his third vertical-lift machine, found that it would lift itself but balked at carrying a load. Like many another helicopterphile, Igor Sikorsky soon sideslipped into airplane design. Last week, having completed the design of a new four-motored ocean clipper for American Export Airlines, Igor Sikorsky made his first public flight in a helicopter, 20 years after his earlier contraption had balked...