Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Norwegian waters to elude the Allied blockade must stop. While the grounded Altmark was refloated last week and Norway pondered whether to hand her back to Germany before getting Great Britain to agree to arbitrate the case, the Allies acted. East of the North Cape in the Arctic Ocean, off Finland's lost port of Petsamo and off Murmansk in Red Russia, an undetermined number of Allied warships let their presence be known. Ostensibly they were an extension of the North Atlantic blockade, which stretches to Iceland. They were there to prevent Germany from getting seaborne supplies from northern...
...first to find antarctic land-that had been done 20 years earlier by Nathaniel Brown Palmer, a Connecticut sealing captain-but he was the first to make enough landfalls to establish an Antarctic Continent. After the War of 1812, whaling and sealing began to spread into the Antarctic Ocean, and the New England skippers asked the Government for information and charts. Congress approved a naval expedition, settled its command on Lieut. Charles Wilkes, a scholarly, hot-tempered, opinionated martinet...
...Urging a two-ocean fleet...
...Lama Tanchu, or Lama Dhondup, or Ehrlingh ("Divine Child"), the new Dalai Lama last fortnight took his official name: Jampel Ngag-Wang Lobsang Yishey Tenzing Gyamtso, deriving from the names of earlier Dalai Lamas and meaning "Tender Glory, Mighty in Speech, Excellent Intellect, Absolute Wisdom, Holding to the Doctrine, Ocean-Wide." To most Tibetans he will be known, like his predecessors, as Gyamtso Rimpoche ("Glorious King"). So glorious is he supposed to be, in fact, that the monks of his palace-fortress, the Potala, will do a thriving business selling barley pills containing his excreta-a specific for all ills...
Problems of supply-food and munitions-were announced as having been specially discussed by the conferees, but the vast horizon for military action which the Council now contemplates was revealed by comments from authoritative quarters after the conferees dispersed. This horizon now stretches all the way from the Arctic Ocean around through the Atlantic and Mediterranean to the Gulf of Persia. In Paris, wise talk was about swiftly increasing aid for Finland (see p. 24). In London it was reported that M. Daladier had proposed breaking off relations with Russia, but that Mr. Chamberlain restrained him, preferring to let Russia...