Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great lesson, said the board: "The best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring. . . . The combination of the atomic bomb with remote-control projectiles of ocean-spanning range stands as a possibility which is awesome and frightful to contemplate...
Discord and gloom at the first session of the Foreign Ministers Council in London made it more than ever apparent that the fabric of peace would be many a weary month in the weaving (see below). There and elsewhere, disputes ranged from the Danube to the Indian Ocean, from the meaning of "democracy" to the meaning...
...airports have been an engineer's dream for years. The sober Lords of the Admiralty claim that the Lily stays fairly flat when jolted by waves 35 ft. high, can be quickly assembled or towed to any desired spot. A Lily with larger, deeper buoys would allow trans-ocean airplanes to land...
...Wittiamsburg is a 14-year-old, twin-screw, diesel-powered ocean yacht once known as the Aras and owned by Maine Paper Manufacturer Hugh J. Chisholm. President Truman will have two double staterooms on the boat deck. One will have gold draperies, oyster-white leather chairs, blue walls; the other will be done in beige and green. There will be peach carpeting in the lounge, beige in the messroom. The presidential "head" will include a bathtub; guest staterooms will have showers. On the fantail Harry Truman and guests can relax under awnings, in lounge chairs. He will be free...
...knows how many hundreds of her crew bobbed in the ocean the next morning. Three life rafts and a floater net supported a few. The rest drifted about, held up by rubber life belts or Mae Wests. By mid-afternoon all were blind from the tropical sun, and after dark they shook with cold. About 60 died that night. Their life jackets were ripped off for the living...