Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finisterre, which, with its trembling shadow cast on the ocean...
...Warren Wright's Ocean Wave, brother of famed Whirlaway...
...planes were desperately needed to search out and destroy Nazi submarines now operating in mid-ocean (see p. 30). To Franklin Roosevelt the value of aircraft against submarines was obvious: . Britain's land-based planes had already pushed the U-boats beyond their own range. On the probability that converted carriers-50, 75, 100 of them if necessary-could push them out of the water altogether, the President was willing to gamble. If they worked, the Commander in Chief of the Navy could hold out his hand to Mr. Kaiser. It was their joint idea...
Before 1846, the U.S. was a long front yard facing the Atlantic Ocean, with a big back pasture behind the Appalachian fence. The country was shut off from the Pacific by Mexico in California, and the British claims to the Oregon territory. During 1846, the U.S. occupied the Pacific coast from the 49th parallel to Lower California, and became a continental power. At the same time the stage was cleared for a new issue: Who was going to run this continental power-the free-labor North and West, or the slave-labor South? "At some time between August and December...
...World Is Still Vast. It is still the world of the Great Navigators, a world three-quarters ocean, unpotable, in hospitable and deadly to men; the dark masses of land are still as large, the stony mountains still as high, the myriad populations still as strange, the myriad languages still as hard to learn. They deceive themselves who say this globe has shrunk to a convenient size, to a neighborhood whose men can greet each other at corners and whose women can borrow butter across the fence. The truth has been lost in a metaphor...