Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sunk on the ocean floor off Pendeen...
...Ocean of Neck. The London Handel moved to in 1712 was a bawdy place of brawling and bawling. Handel did well at court. Queen Anne, who had little use for musicians, pensioned him just to spite her Hanoverian cousins. Anne's successor, lumpish George I, attended almost all his operas with his favorite German mistress and her "two acres of cheeks ... an ocean of neck." The rest of London was more fickle. Addison, who had written an unsuccessful opera himself, denounced and ridiculed Handel's music. Handel's rival, the egocentric Giovanni Battista Bononcini, kept him fighting...
...project itself has two sides. It calls for the creation of a 27-foot channel that will allow ocean-going vessels to steam from the Atlantic to any of the ports on the Great Lakes. The Seaway's second feature is a power-producing chain of dams on the St. Lawrence which would provide locks for navigation. As now conceived, the entire enterprise is estimated at $720,000,000, although opponents claim that expenses would run much higher...
Officials of Atlantic and Gulf ports have been calling the Seaway all sorts of names ever since it first came up. They paint tragic pictures of ocean commerce steaming to Chicago and Duluth, leaving New York, Boston, and New Orleans little more than ghost towns. On the other hand, big shipping firms stated flatly that they wouldn't use the Seaway; Senator Morse retorted that they would when they found it profitable. Senator Aiken of Vermont roundly scored the shippers, saying that "since 1936 they have had their hands in the Federal Treasury, clear up to the armpits...
...morning last week, they piled oranges, raisins, coffee into their two-place glider and took off, towed by a 1942 Chevrolet until their glider was 100 feet in the air. All day they swooped, soared and whirled above the hills of Palos Verdes, Calif, and out over the Pacific Ocean...