Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London's V-E day celebration had died down. Along with her sister ship, the Parthia, to be launched in November, she had been rushed to completion in less than two years. She represented Britain's shrewdest hunch on what it takes to cop the postwar ocean traffic...
Half an hour later, the last supply boat headed for the French shore, carrying six sick refugees-the Jews' reply to the British ultimatum. The Runnymede Park put to sea, with its passengers grasping the grill of their caged-in deck and singing defiantly in Hebrew. The Ocean Vigour and Empire Rival followed...
...maintain flying speed. Because of subsidies, free-enterprising American-flag lines, once way ahead, could now see a handful of foreign lines, state-supported in varying degrees, creeping up on their tails. On the choicest route-the North Atlantic-the American lines were still well in front. The Pacific Ocean was still an American lake. But over the land mass of Asia, the British, Dutch and French lines were pressing hard; Air France has just opened a new run to Hong Kong from French Indo-China; the British Overseas Airways Corp. has added a leg to Ceylon from Karachi...
Since 1919, Real Estate Man Samuel F. B. Morse,* often called the "Duke of Monterey," has tried to create something almost as exclusive with his famed Del Monte Properties Co. on California's cypress-clad, ocean-girt Monterey Peninsula. He has sold parcels of the 14,000 beautiful acres (at as high as $50,000 an acre), but has always reserved the right to tell the owners what to do with their land. He excludes Negroes, Asiatics and former "subjects of the Ottoman Empire." Once in, purchasers cannot build a house or fence, cut or plant a tree, keep...
...Geographic Names broke the spell of a muggy July day with an ice-cold footnote to history: Franklin Roosevelt had once declined the honor of having an Antarctic sea named for him. The President had informed the board that he would much prefer "a smoking volcano" to a frozen ocean. The board informed the President that it was fresh out of smoking volcanoes...