Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grave Warning. In British Columbia, President Birt Showier of the Vancouver and New Westminster Trades and Labor Council warned members not to patronize Ocean View Cemetery, because item ploys non-union grave diggers...
...purely economic aspects, said Douglas, the U.S. derives little nourishment from carrying ocean traffic. Other nations can operate cargo fleets cheaply. Those nations (particularly Britain, Norway, Holland) depend on ocean trade for their life. If the U.S. expects to sell them its goods and support its own economy, the U.S. must encourage its seafaring neighbors, not crowd them out. The U.S. should therefore sell or lease them some 30,000,000 tons of its dry cargo ships (plus tankers and passenger ships) to flesh out their war-depleted fleets...
...plain fact was that the Axis enemies had lost the ability to take the offensive-Germany on her continent, Japan on her ocean. The Allies might be worn down by the strain of war, as Russia and Britain surely were. They might be drawn fiddlestring tight between two wars over vast distances-as the U.S. was. But they were on the offensive. And the longer they could drive themselves to stay on it, the sooner they could write the end of World...
...Remagen the Navy had steamed up in trucks 48 hours after the bridge seizure, and helped mightily in getting the heavy stuff across. At the Third Army's crossings, about 250 miles from the nearest ocean, the Navy carried most of the freight, most of the passengers. There crewmen dubbed their operation: "U.S.S. Blood & Guts." Lieut. General George S. Patton beamed his approval...
...weeks, National Tory Leader John Bracken has charged that hundreds of home defense draftees threw their rifles into the ocean in protest against being sent overseas to fight. For weeks, Defense Minister Andrew G. L. McNaughton has denied the charge. Last week, after John Bracken had made his charge again, stern, scowling General McNaughton exploded with lyric wrath...