Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...full import of the recent Allied successes in the Atlantic became apparent last week. At a time when, as of four months ago, Allied authorities expected to be losing ship after ship to the greatest of U-boat campaigns, the actual losses were astoundingly small. In fact, the ocean lanes to Britain and North Africa last week were more dangerous for Germany's U-boats than for Allied merchantmen...
California's Consolidated Steel Corp. Ltd. this week flopped the frigate U.S.S. San Pedro into the Pacific Ocean, wrote down a fat new total of ship launchings -268. With satisfaction the 40,000 Consolidated employes (up from 800 in 1938) went to work to add a white star to their blue Maritime Commission "M" flag...
...Trans-Ocean Agency: "There are simply not enough ships [left] to be sunk...
...Lawrence River needs a channel for ocean-going ships that would give the heartlands of the North American continent dock frontage on the seven seas. The U.S. can pay for it in toll receipts at an overall cost no greater than one day of this...
Many of them next ship on a freighter in a huge North Atlantic convoy, Murmansk-bound. Attacked in mid-ocean by a fleet of German submarines, the ship leaves the convoy, but is trailed by one of the U-boats, runs under some Nazi bombers, is finally torpedoed by the dogging sub. Acting as captain in place of the wounded Massey, Bogart sets fire to his own decks, pretends to abandon ship, makes the Germans come to the surface, then rams and sinks them. The freighter limps into port with cargo intact...