Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calm. For six days, moving as a body about 15 m.p.h., it churned a path 500 miles wide up & across the Atlantic. And for six days U.S. meteorologists clocked its forward progress, studied its habits, and charted its course (see SCIENCE). When it hit North Carolina's ocean bulge on the seventh day and started up the Eastern Seaboard, ripping like a circular saw, they foretold its movements almost to the mile and hour...
...Army Service Forces and his chief planner, cool, efficient Major General Leroy Lutes. They were the wholesalers, getting the supplies from the producers, estimating how much could go to Europe (and how much to every other battlefield in the world), and delivering them on the far shore of the ocean in the quantities needed and at the time required...
...doldrums," a generally calm region in the equatorial Atlantic between the Cape Verde Islands and the West Indies, waves of heated air molecules begin to rise from the warm sea. As cooler molecules rush in from the sides to take their place, and the rising air, saturated with ocean vapor, cools off in the upper atmosphere, the air currents move faster & faster. Soon the growing whirlwind, given a counterclockwise spiraling motion by the earth's rotation (it is clockwise in the Southern hemisphere), resembles a vast phonograph record, with a hollow core, the vortex or "eye" of the storm...
...subs, now operating from new advanced bases and thus able to stay longer in the Empire, were biting even deeper into the artery; they were sinking Jap ships at the rate of two a day. In the Indian Ocean, British and Allied submarines were creeping up to the same rate of destruction...
...second day, in the spacious, book-lined living room of the Holmes house, there was a brief military conference (90 minutes) with General MacArthur, Admiral Nimitz, Admiral William F. Halsey of the Third Fleet and Lieut. General Robert C. (Nellie) Richardson Jr., Army commander in the Pacific Ocean Areas. On the third day Franklin Roosevelt called in reporters for his only press conference of the trip, seating the newsmen on the lawn of the Holmes estate, under the palms, from which all coconuts had been thoughtfully sheared lest they drop on unprotected heads. The only noteworthy point: U.S. fighting forces...