Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the U.S. State Department began to chase the Axis-controlled airlines out of South America back in 1938 nobody ever dreamed the whole program would some day end in a conglomeration of good intentions, good airline service, international politics and sinister trans-ocean intrigue. Yet that was the shape of things last week. And in many a South American city and town there were signs that: 1) although the U.S. did a good turn in ousting Axis airlines, it has since been unable to expand service fast enough to meet total demand; 2) the U.S. has not done enough...
Cargo planes have long been a Hughes dream; in one of his rare public speeches, after his round-the-world flight, he predicted that airplanes would some day supplant ocean liners, said that the aircraft industry's future was "beyond the scope of the most fantastic imagination." Now that Imaginer Hughes and Imaginer Kaiser are teamed up, Americans may possibly see some fantastic results...
...forces from Persia to help defend the remainder of the Caucasus and keep open the Caspian as a supply route. In northern Persia the United Nations had collected men and war materials. Behind them were a string of air bases across Iraq and Persia, at Red Sea and Indian Ocean ports. The time might be at hand for a new move-if Russia consented, for American and British soldiers to join in active defense of Soviet soil...
...lanky American asked the class of British schoolboys: "Suppose you were sitting on the bank of the Mississippi River looking east. How far away would the Atlantic Ocean be?" Blank looks. Many of them had never heard of the Mississippi River. Said a boy who had: "100 miles." Another: "500 miles...
Ships appeared heading westward under a frantic head of steam, evidently trying to get away from Kiukiang before we could get there. A great ocean freighter went past under our wings. By now the boats were growing thicker. Great patches in the river seemed alive. We grew tense in our seats watching for the target, watching for rising planes, watching for ack-ack fire, peering up into the sky above us for Japanese Zeros...