Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...failure of Asdic and radar was probably all to the good, for the trouble with whaling before the war was its success, which threatened to exterminate whales in every ocean. British experts believe that whaling's future depends on strict regulation, better knowledge of the whales' migration and breeding habits...
...Ocean Test...
...more important that the Dutch concentrate on getting back their prewar share of the world's ocean trade, because that would bring foreign exchange to buy raw materials to reconstruct, expand. The U.S. loan negotiations had gone smoothly -$200,000,000, half of it from Washington, half from private U.S. banks. The interest rate, 2¼%, expressed U.S. confidence in The Netherlands' future...
This was the main battleground of U.S. food production-enormous plains stretching without a relieving ripple beyond vision; rolling prairies, like the heaving surface of the ocean congealed to earth; vast uplands lifting slowly with no barrier but a barbed-wire fence to the terminal barrier of the Rocky Mountains. In good years, this vast food factory poured out some 800 million bu. of wheat, some 2,800 million bu. of corn, 1,200 million bu. of oats, 63 million hogs, 33 million beef cattle, 36 million sheep, 82 million lbs. of milk, 3,200 million lbs. of butterfat...
...stately Congressional Room of Washington's modernistic Hotel Statler, 350 eager editors hunched forward in their chairs. On the platform were three Soviet journalists who had flown the ocean to be interviewed by the American Society of Newspaper Editors...