Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will have a seven-ocean Navy...
...transportation tycoon; after a year's illness; in Montreal. Fresh out of law school, he joined Canadian Pacific Railway Co. in 1901, became its president in 1918, resigned a year ago. Under him Canadian Pacific operated the greatest privately owned track mileage (21,021) in North America, two-ocean fleets (the famed Empresses), a Great Lakes fleet, a string of luxury hotels (Chateau Frontenac), controlled Canada's second-largest mining company, held some 5,000,000 acres of land, ran its own cable and telegraph systems. A lifelong bachelor, Sir Edward was a remarkable double - in face, figure...
Four months was a long time to be at sea ... in an ocean of S & A Manuals and Memos, Navy Regs and Travel Instructions. And the waves of examinations and publication changes made the passage a rough one at times. But lest we forget, those week-end leaves were mighty enjoyable ... and as we will no doubt learn, there are far worse ports-of-call than Boston and its environs...
Once before, in 1918, America reaped the fruit of victory: the menace of German arrogant military power, controlling Europe and the Atlantic Ocean, was removed and democratic ideals triumphed in the fall of the Hohenzollern, Habsburg and Romanov empires, in the liberation of nationalities, in social and political gains everywhere...
Supplies for the South. To sustain themselves the Allies have had to move supplies under heavy convoy across thousands of miles of ocean, and then over hundreds of miles of muddy mountain highways and desert trails...