Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lord, Admiral Erich Raeder. The telegram stated that total United Nations shipping sunk in all theaters in six months amounted to 616 ships-nearly 4,000,000 tons-most of it in American waters. This meant that not fewer than 20,000 seamen had been dumped into the ocean...
...Fleet in sea-air power, but it was not yet time for the U.S. to crow. Its newly won superiority was still too thin for broad-scale offensive action, and it was offset by the Jap's formidable holding of island bases (stationary aircraft carriers) in the western ocean...
Presenting the best that Boston has to offer in the line of amusements and recreation, the Outing Club has scheduled for Saturday an all-day trip to Nantasket bathing beach and amusement center. Excellent swimming, thrills on the roller-coaster, and an enjoyable ocean trip on the Nantasket boat await those who sign up at the Summer School Office, Wadsworth 2, before Friday noon...
...Making the Mackinac" (pronounced mackinaw) is the dream of every inland yachtsman. Not only is it the world's longest fresh-water race (331 miles as the duck paddles), but according to old salts it is no less hazardous than the longer, more spectacular ocean races. In 35 thrashes to Mackinac since 1904, no lives have been lost, but enough boats have been disabled to give the affair a fearsome reputation. One year only eight of 42 starters reached the finish line. Often the winning boat takes nearly four days. Once an all-female crew took two weeks...
...London, Chungking. U.S. ocean air freight began with a bang last January when the Army requisitioned TWA's five 22½-ton Boeing Stratoliners. Scores of 12½ton Douglas DC-3 airline transports were drafted from the airlines, sent around the nation, to Alaska, Britain, Greenland, Africa, China. Airline crews who knew the art of distance-flying were drafted...