Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...build all these war and merchant ships, the U. S. has eight Navy yards (which do half the Navy's building) and 22 private yards with 83 ocean ways. None of them is idle today. Fortnight ago Admiral Stark, asking a Senate Committee for more Navy money, pointed to strained shipbuilding capacity and proposed to add more. But the private shipbuilders, busy as they are, pointed to 37 partially dismantled ways which can be restored to use if their schedules need speeding...
...Hame the Same Way, The Wee Hoose 'mang the Heather. Last week, No. 35 of World War II, Sir Harry Lauder, 69, was back in the U. S. But not in person, on film. Said he: "A wee bit o' celluloid crosses the ocean just as fast and at ha' the price." On celluloid, Sir Harry in his first talking picture, a weak-kneed melodrama, played the trouping grandfather of a motherless baby. Grandfather spends most of his time and money keeping the child away from its no-good father. Minus the bagpipers, Sir Harry Lauder stamped...
With the devastation of war in Europe have come its handmaidens in the Americas, talk of war and fear of war and expectation of war and even willingness for war. Latin-American governments have given up the pretense of impartiality. From Washington comes talk of a two-ocean navy and huge new army appropriations. The rip-tide of emotionalism which sent the U.S. to the defense of Brave Little Belgium in 1917 can be felt moving again in the uncertain currents of American life...
Last fall Pan Am set out as an intervener before CAA to block American Export from getting a certificate of convenience and necessity. Chief contentions: that Export was not financially equipped for ocean trailblazing, that its personnel was inadequate, that on air lanes later to be invaded by French and British lines its competition would be wasteful and costly to U. S. aviation...
...proponents of the $665,000,000 naval bill afraid of a Jap-German coalition attacking us simultaneously in both oceans? The answer to this is, again in the words of Major Eliot, that "considering further the extreme difficulty of coordinating with efficiency the operations of the forces of a great alliance as against a single determined power . . . we may well rest content with a degree of naval strength which enables us to be superior to any one enemy or possible coalition which may menace us on either side." If the Navy is worried about getting from one ocean...