Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...umpteenth gold medal for "distinguished achievement"): "If you want to win a baseball game, you try to outhit the other fellow but you don't take away his bat. ... I urge that when the fighting stops British Overseas Airways be permitted to secure-on equitable terms-all the ocean transport planes that are needed to restore the balance for fair competition." He also gave a glimpse of the size of Pan Am's postwar baseball bat, revealed that for more than a year Pan Am has planned "50 giant clippers, each capable of carrying 153 passengers from...
...Charles A. Federer Jr., Ralph Waldo Gerard and others), in chatty, informal style, simply illustrated, and at high-school level. No textbook, Science from Shipboard cuts ruthlessly across academic boundaries between the sciences, starts each topic with a direct human experience. Sample (by Harvard's Mather): "Like every ocean traveler you will be thrilled by each glimpse of land. . . . The most important idea that should be in your mind as you look at any shore is the fundamental fact that it has not always been as you see it today. How did that cliff, harbor, beach, island, or mountain...
...Pathetic." When Commander Smith first saw them, they had all had the benefit of a three-week ocean trip, and said they felt "much better." But they had common symptoms galore: headaches, sensitivity to sharp noises, periods of amnesia, tendency to get panicky, tense muscles, tremors, hands that shook when they tried to do anything. They were "frequently close to tears or very short-tempered." Men who formerly took pride in their ability to hold their liquor "found that a couple of short beers would make them cry like babies or want to fight everyone in sight...
Less than five days before, those freight ers had been loaded in the U.S. Crack air line pilots, to whom ocean-flying had be come routine, had taken them across 15,-ooo miles of war-char ted airways with no more trouble than they once hauled mail and passengers between New York and Chicago. It was the biggest mass freight flight in aviation history. And although its total freight load was only 90 tons, airmen knew that when peace comes that load could be multiplied almost indefinitely...
...years ago such an assignment would have called for weeks of preparation. That ATC could put it through now with such swift efficiency was the result of many providential circumstances. One of them is that the wide-open spaces of the U.S. had given it the finest domestic and ocean air-transport system in the world...