Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nineteen-year-old Ruth Ehlers of North Bergen, N.J. was a little worried last week about one aspect of her wedding to Louis Villani, 23, a mechanic of the same city. She had her heart set on getting hitched in a diving bell at the bottom of the ocean, but in writing to Atlantic City to arrange for the equipment, she pleaded: "Please don't think we are trying to be sensational or maybe even crazy...
...when Dr. William Beebe made his record ocean descent in his baby blue Bathysphere off Bermuda, he had to stop at 3,028 feet because the cable was about to run out. As he crawled out on deck after being pulled up, Scientist Beebe announced: "I'll tell the world that this is the last time I'll attempt record-breaking dives which really have no scientific value...
...times as much as today, and its farms almost three times as much. Moulton points out that, even with present knowledge, vast new areas can be brought under cultivation, swamps and deserts reclaimed; he believes that certain crops could be raised in the fertile bed of the ocean. Fertilizers could increase farm output as much as the "discovery of a sixth continent...
...Warwick's fat parcel of New World land known as Connecticut turned out to be fatter than anyone suspected back in 1630. The Earl's Crown charter spoke with magnificent vagueness of a strip 40 leagues wide extending "throughout all the main lands . . . from the western [Atlantic] ocean to the South Seas [the Pacific]. A century and a half later, with a sound respect for geography and the realities of U.S. politics, Connecticut bowed to congressional insistence and ceded her western claims, with one exception. The exception was the Western Reserve, a 120-mile strip bordering Lake Erie...
...scheduled airlines were so jammed for space that the CAB, which had been slapping down unscheduled carriers, let four of them help out. It gave special permits to Seaboard & Western, Transocean, Alaskan and Coastal-all nonscheduled ocean flyers-to haul limited groups of U.S. students and European displaced persons at low summer rates...